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THE LIVING JESUS 




The Reverend Frederick A. Wiggin, D.D. 
The Medium 



THE LIVING JESUS 

THE WORDS OF 
JESUS OF NAZARETH 



UTTERED THROUGH THE MEDIUM 
FREDERICK A. WIGGIN 

From February n to June J, IQ2I 



NEW YORK 

GEORGE SULLY AND COMPANY 
1921 






Copyright, 1921, by 
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PREFACE 

The surprise felt by the reader as he opens 
this book was experienced to the full by the 
three to whom the whole of the subject matter 
was given, and by the members of the Class in 
Spiritual Healing, at a meeting of which the 
Great Teacher first came, and at twelve subse- 
quent meetings of which likewise he spoke. 
The undersigned cannot be said consciously 
to have experienced the coming of the presence, 
except for a few brief moments out of the 
many hours during which the messages were 
being given. His knowledge came mainly as 
that of the majority of mankind must come — 
from hearsay, when the records were read. To 
the two editors those hours of receiving the 
messages were thoroughly absorbing ones. The 
entire experience was, however, so natural, 
once the unusualness of the manifesting of 
such a personality was lost sight of in the real- 
ization that it was but in fulfillment of a prom- 
ise recorded in history, that surprise was swal- 



vi PREFACE 

lowed up in joy of the message and of the 
presence. 

It would seem to be unfortunate that the 
reader does not have the advantage that the 
hearers had,, of coming to know the personality 
before being confronted with the announce- 
ment of his identity. For two and a half 
months did the Great Teacher speak and min- 
ister before he told who he was. He purposely 
refrained from that announcement, as he said, 
that he might make himself known before mak- 
ing known his name. The reader will not be 
so prepared; yet he will not fail to find, if he 
reads with an open mind, that during his read- 
ing the truth is attested to by his own inner 
consciousness. 

However at variance the tremendous claim 
that this book makes may be with the reader's 
opinions, he owes it to himself not to repudiate 
that claim without thoughtfully reading the 
entire book. 

Frederick A. Wiggin 

Brookline, Massachusetts 

September, 1921 



CONTENTS 



Foreword 

Introduction 

Session Circle 

1. Spiritual Healing Circle 

2. The Inner Circle . . 

3. Spiritual Healing Circle 

4. The Inner Circle . . 

5. The Inner Circle . . 

6. Spiritual Healing Circle 

7. The Inner Circle . . 

8. Spiritual Healing Circle 

9. The Inner Circle . . 

10. Spiritual Healing Circle 

11. The Inner Circle . . 

12. Spiritual Healing Circle 

13. The Inner Circle . . 

14. Spiritual Healing Circle 

15. The Inner Circle . . 



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Subject 

, The Soul i 

, Purpose in Life 13 

, Soul and Intellect 19 

, The Psychology of Birth ... 33 

, The Boyhood of Jesus .... 40 

, The Open Door Si 

, Peace and Happiness ... 60 
The Youth and Manhood of Jesus 61 

, The Divine Guest 67 

, The Conception of Jesus ... 71 

The Sure Harvest 78 

A Prophecy 84 

The Father of Jesus .... 85 
The Nature of Mind .... 87 

The Christ Power 92 

Soul Evolution 96 

Marriage 99 

The Light of the World . . .105 

Divine Justice versus Vicarious 

Atonement in 

Infinite Love 115 

A Prophecy 117 

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CONTENTS 



Session Circle 

16. Spiritual Healing Circle 

17. The Inner Circle 



18. Spiritual Healing Circle 

19. The Inner Circle . . 



20. Spiritual Healing Circle 

21. The Inner Circle . . 

22. Spiritual Healing Circle 

23. The Inner Circle . . 

24. The Inner Circle . . 

25. Spiritual Healing Circle 

26. The Inner Circle . . . 



27. Spiritual Healing Circle 

28. The Inner Circle . . . 



Subject Page 

The Spiritual Kingdom . . . 121 

Predestination and Foreordination 126 
The Child in the Midst . . .128 
The Abstract and the Concrete . 130 

The Immediacy of Healing . . 135 

Announcement of Identity . . 139 
The Harvest of Happiness . . 139 

Spirit Return 142 

Judgment Day 144 

A Prophecy 145 

Second Announcement of Iden- 
tity 148 

The Living Jesus 148 

A Prophecy 152 

Discipline 153 

True Christianity 156 

Indulgences 158 

The Home of the Soul . . . 162 

Sectarianism 166 

Christian Science 169 

The Greatness of Service . . . 171 
Spiritual Insight 174 

Purity of Heart 177 

The Living Presence . . . . 179 

Governments 182 

Thought 186 

The Home of the Soul ... 188 

The Dream and the Real . . .191 
A Prophecy 195 



FOREWORD 

Between thirty and forty years ago I had an experi- 
ence which to me at that time was very strange. With- 
out the slightest prior intimation, I was unconsciously 
controlled by spirit forces. This experience was not only 
strange in its nature, but particularly surprising to me, 
since it occurred while I was preaching, as a ministerial 
student, from a Baptist pulpit. 

At the close of my first sermon delivered while in this 
entranced state, the worshipers crowded around me, 
congratulating me upon my eloquence and predicting a 
great future for me. This entrancement occurred again 
on the second Sunday. On the third Sabbath the con- 
trolling intelligence,, who made no announcement of 
his identity, after his address chose to deliver several 
messages purporting to come from departed Baptist 
deacons to the present members of the church. This 
revealed to them the cause of my youthful eloquence, 
and at the close of the service those who had formerly 
been my friends shook their fists in my face, declaring 
that the secret of my power had now been discovered; 
it was evil, and I was in league with the devil. As a 



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result, the authorities called an emphatic and immediate 
halt to my preaching in that church. 

Let it be understood that at that time I was earnestly 
devoting my every energy in an endeavor to qualify for 
the Baptist ministry, and I was far from disposed to 
surrender my purpose. Receiving calls to supply several 
pulpits, I pushed ahead, praying that I might be delivered 
from this annoyance and trial. This endeavor, however, 
was all to no valued purpose, for upon nearly every 
occasion, when attempting to address an audience, I 
was thrown into unconscious entrancement. The more 
firmly I set my will against such an occurrence, the more 
pronounced and persistent became the invisible person- 
ality. So insistent was the determination of this spirit 
being to control my organism, that finally I was com- 
pelled to give up all hope of ever being able to function 
as a Baptist clergyman, and, in 1882, I accepted the 
seemingly inevitable. 

Some fragmentary reports of my experiences were 
noted by the secular press, and thereby became public 
property to no little extent. The whole matter became 
at once a feature of interest to Spiritualists. I was, 
therefore, invited by several Spiritualistic centers to 
deliver addresses for them. I positively refused all such 
invitations, for at that time I was decidedly opposed to 
everything pertaining to Spiritualism, and could by no 
inducement be tempted to identify myself, in any man- 



FOREWORD xi 

ner whatsoever, with Spiritualists or Spiritualism. To 
me the word "Spiritualism" was nothing short of 
anathema. 

In the month of September, 1883, I made the ac- 
quaintance of Mr. Robin Damon, proprietor of the 
Salem Evening News. Between us a partnership was 
arranged, and we installed a newspaper plant and began 
the publication of the Gloucester Daily News, the first 
daily paper ever published on Cape Ann. Soon after- 
ward I purchased the entire interest in this paper and 
became its editor-in-chief. 

It now fell to my lot to address the public through 
my pen. Here, however, as in the pulpit, I found that 
the "invisible one'' persisted, for at times my hand was 
simply forced to write automatically editorials such as 
were in sentiment frequently in direct opposition to my 
personal convictions. Thus I was made to understand 
that "he" was not only a preacher, but an editor as well. 

This newspaper enterprise was from the first well 
received by the people of Cape Ann, and especially by 
the merchants who contributed generously to our adver- 
tising columns. A weekly publication, however, the 
Cape Ann Advertiser, had for many years been a well 
and favorably recognized journal. Such inroads did 
my daily make into the advertising business of the 
weekly, that the owners of the Cape Ann Advertiser, 
George and Frank Proctor, considered it advisable to 



xii FOREWORD 

start another daily publication in Gloucester. This new 
daily, coming into Gloucester, greatly disturbed me, 
for I was reasonably certain that Gloucester was not 
sufficiently large to support two such papers. The ques- 
tion of which paper must pay the price of elimination 
and failure seriously confronted me. I knew that that 
answer depended largely upon which proprietor could 
furnish the most losing money, and could continue to 
do so until victory was won. 

The Proctor brothers, owners of the new daily paper, 
most estimable gentlemen, had the advantage of a long 
and honorable citizenship in Gloucester, as well as the 
money. It required about one year for me to understand 
fully that, so far as my interests were concerned, my 
retreat from the field was the better part of valor. 
Therefore I surrendered to my competitors, discouraged 
because of the necessity of doing so, and because of an 
indebtedness of several thousand dollars. 

At this time, several editorial and reportorial posi- 
tions were offered me, but discouraged as I was with 
newspaper work, none of these made any appeal to me. 
I was now spending much time in mental rummaging, 
endeavoring to settle upon some wise and definite 
course. 

One evening, while reflecting and contemplating, I 
heard a voice, yet saw no one. Very clearly the voice 
said, "You have tried and have given of your best 



FOREWORD xiii 

efforts in an endeavor to succeed. Notwithstanding all 
this, you have failed, — not because you have not tried, 
but because you have not made endeavor along the line 
of work for which the spiritual forces have chosen you. 
It is desired, here in the spiritual world, that you should 
become an instrument of, and a co-operator with, the 
spiritual world, to carry forward and give expression 
to a work of love in behalf of a spiritually needy human- 
ity. We are now calling upon you to decide which 
course you will take. Heed our call and willingly be- 
come our co-operator, and you shall be able, with the 
help which we will give, to reach millions with spiritual 
blessings. You shall be abundantly blessed in this 
work. Refuse the call, and you shall find, no matter 
how earnestly you try, even as you have found, a close- 
shut door to your successful advance. ,, 

A few months passed before I concluded to enter 
upon the work to which the "voice" had called me. When 
I had really decided upon this course, I failed to see 
clearly just how I was to go about it all, for I could 
discern no actual light ahead nor any leading. Finally, 
however, — and I must confess that it was with mis- 
givings, — I said, "I will." 

One evening, while sitting in "the silence," I spoke 
aloud, though as to no one, saying, "I have decided to 
do my best to carry out the wishes of the spiritual 



xiv FOREWORD 

forces; but tell me, oh, tell me, where and how shall 
I begin the work?" 

To my surprise I again heard the "voice/' saying, 
"Within a week you will have a call." 

In less time than that, I received an invitation from 
a prominent Spiritualistic center to speak for its society. 
I accepted. I delivered addresses from time to time, 
mostly in the entranced state, and usually at their con- 
clusion spiritual messages, purporting to come from 
friends who had departed the earth life, were voiced 
to people in my audiences. So forceful were these mes- 
sages, which were usually accompanied by the full names 
of the persons claiming to be sending them, that even 
the most sceptical were compelled to admit of their genu- 
ineness. 

In style and mannerisms the personality of the con- 
trolling intelligence was very different from my own, 
so good critics said. During the first year of my public 
work I did not know who was speaking through my 
organism from time to time,, neither have I been in- 
formed up to the present; but after this period my 
control evidently was changed. While I was filling an 
engagement at Portland, Maine, in the autumn of 1886, 
at the conclusion of an entranced address a gentleman 
in the audience asked if the controlling intelligence 
would give to him his name. The reply came at once: 
"I am John McCullough, the tragedian." 



FOREWORD xv 

After lecturing for several years, for the most part 
in the entranced state, in nearly all of the larger cities 
east of the Mississippi, and after filling short pastor- 
ates as a Spiritualist minister in Washington, District 
of Columbia; Brooklyn, New York; and Indianapolis, 
Indiana; I received a call to Unity Church, Boston, 
Massachusetts, where I have been the pastor for twenty 
years, and where I am still continuing my ministry, con- 
stantly aided by that faithful spirit who, in 1886, an- 
nounced himself as my control, and whose personality 
has been definitely identified by two former actor friends 
of his. 

Mr. Walter Hubbell, an actor who had appeared in 
the same company with John McCullough, although 
never with him in the tragedian's most popular play, 
"Virginius," once attended one of my seances and made 
a test of the identity of my control under conditions 
which Mr. Hubbell, himself, considered, and any honest 
sceptic would consider, proof against trickery of any 
sort. He wrote upon a slip of paper the following ques- 
tion: "John McCullough, do you remember this — 'Does 
no one speak? I am defendant here!' " The quoted 
words were those of the character Virginius. Before 
the medium had touched the paper, the spirit, John 
McCullough, quoted the words of the question, replied 
to it, proved that he recognized the identity of the ques- 
tioner, and held quite a conversation with him, all per- 



xvi FOREWORD 

fectly in character, — in thought, word, and manner, — 
and without hesitation or possibility of preparation. 
Mr. Hubbell had never at that time appeared on any 
stage in Boston, nor was he known or recognized, he was 
very sure, by any one present, in an audience of a thou- 
sand people, except by the spirit of John McCullough. 

The late Thomas W. Keene, the eminent actor, with 
whom at the time of the following occurrence I had no 
acquaintance, requested of me a private psychic inter- 
view. His request was granted. The interview was 
given while I was in the unconscious entranced state. 
At its conclusion, when my normal condition had been 
resumed, I saw that the gentleman was in tears and 
deeply affected. I remarked upon this to him,; where- 
upon Mr. Keene said, "I have been talking with my 
old friend, John McCullough. I am certain that it is 
he, because we have been conversing about matters 
absolutely unknown to any except Mr. McCullough and 
myself/' 

I may add here that Mr. Keene told me at that time 
that, prior to this, he had never had the slightest inter- 
est in anything pertaining to Spiritualism, although his 
wife had been somewhat interested in psychic phenom- 
ena. It was she who had influenced him to visit me, for 
she had received information that it was the spirit of 
John McCullough who spoke through my organism. 

A large circle of hearers, also, have come to know 



FOREWORD xvii 

John McCullough as a very distinct personality, one 
harmonizing in all respects with the historical John 
McCullough, the great American tragedian of Irish 
birth, who for many years was one of the brightest 
stars in a galaxy which included Edwin Forrest, Edwin 
Booth, Lawrence Barrett, E. L. Davenport, Charlotte 
Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, and Mary Anderson. 

Those who have been privileged to listen to the dis- 
courses and messages delivered by this talented and 
most vital of presences have noted a thousand proofs 
of identity, and many more evidences of the idiosyn- 
crasies of thought and expression by which an author's 
entire work is verified as his own more forcibly than 
by a mere signature. Not only has identity been abso- 
lutely authenticated, but evidence of the gradual growth 
and development of thought, of character, of the unfold- 
ing of the very highest qualities of a great mind and 
heart, has been conclusive. 

The spirit of service, which characterized in his 
earthly life the much loved "honest John," has so in- 
creased through his serving that he is ever at the call 
of those who need him, ever ready to bring to the 
humblest who sincerely asks, the help and advice which 
he, as a spirit, can give with such special authority. He 
who was winner of earth's laurels in the dramatic art, 
now comes as a spirit, his laurels invisible, often un- 
named when his name would be greeted with applause, 



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and for years has been among earth's people as one 
who serves, and the servant of all. 

It will not be necessary further to point out the spirit- 
ualizing of this personality to those who read the fol- 
lowing pages, and who observe the spirit in which this 
true "associate pastor" to the flock at Unity Church 
makes way for the Great Shepherd. Certainly the spirit 
John McCullough has been another "voice crying in 
the wilderness" of a materialistic civilization for these 
thirty years: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make 
his paths straight." 

Now, after these many years of ministry, greatly to 
my own surprise, and at first unnamed and unheralded, 
has come another spirit presence, and "one mightier 
than John the Baptist" is here. Of the coming of that 
one it is for others to tell, — others who know more about 
it than do I. Enough for me to echo the words of John 
McCullough and say, " The latchet of his shoes I am 
not worthy to stoop down and unloose/ " Yet not 
enough, until I have said, in behalf of John McCullough, 
in behalf of the two others associated with me in the 
putting out of this book, and in behalf of myself, that 
this spirit presence, this truly Great Teacher, has won 
our deepest allegiance. 

Frederick A. Wiggin 



INTRODUCTION 

The narrative of the events that lead up to the publi- 
cation of this book is an unusual one, but the events 
themselves are far from being unnatural. 

The life of the Reverend Frederick A. Wiggin, D.D., 
as pastor of Unity Church, Boston, Massachusetts, has 
been for many years too publicly lived to permit that 
any other than his own explanation of the source of the 
messages conveyed to the world in the pages of this 
book, should seem plausible; for his has been uniformly 
the life of a minister and a medium, and because of the 
quality of his work large demands have been made upon 
him. Each year, from the first of October until the first 
of June, he delivers approximately from five to eight 
addresses and talks a week, for the preparation of all 
of which there are only such fragments of time avail- 
able as would not account for even one of the scholarly 
and eloquent addresses, such as he gives both entranced 
and in his own consciousness. At two public seances 
weekly he delivers an average of, approximately, 
seventy-five personal messages; in two semi-private 
seances weekly he gives messages to twenty people 

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xx INTRODUCTION 

more ; and, also, by letter to a large clientele. The accu- 
racy and truthfulness of these messages have been 
established in tens of thousands of cases. 

Another department of his work has been the appli- 
cation of methods of spiritual healing, by the conduct 
of classes, by personal interview,, by personal letter, — 
written often while in the entranced state to persons 
requiring clairvoyant diagnosis and advice, — and by 
absent treatments daily to a large list of patients in 
various parts of the country. The number of persons 
reached by correspondence, and, therefore, psychically,' 
for either messages or healing, or both, within a year's 
time reaches several thousand. Thus the correspondence 
and interview sides of his work compel him to keep 
exacting office hours,, as far as his ministerial and pas- 
toral duties permit. And it is not surprising that, for 
visiting the sick, conducting funerals, performing the 
marriage ceremony, and assisting in all social emer- 
gencies, a pastor whose help is so eminently practical 
should be greatly in demand. 

The few brief summer months have been for years 
and are usually spent, mainly, in traveling all over the 
country, speaking in the cause of Spiritualism to large 
gatherings, and secondarily, — yet not such in impor- 
tance, — in recuperating the nervous energy with which 
to carry along the purely physical side of so exacting 
psychic ministrations. 



INTRODUCTION xxi 

Although Dr. Wiggin is the author of one book, 
"Cubes and Spheres," published in 1899, so little 
leisure has been accorded him since that date that, 
with a large and most interesting experience at hand 
from which to draw, he has been unable even to com- 
pile from his own numerous addresses any publication. 
That fact makes all the more of a surprise the way in 
which this book has broken through the barriers of 
limited time, of fatigue, without even remote premoni- 
tion, — and that on the part of one whose premonitions 
for others' lives are superlatively keen, — and without 
possibility of the slightest preparation. Those most 
conversant with Dr. Wiggin's thought, with his style 
of expression, will realize the most quickly how far 
afield from his usual lines of study much of the subject 
matter of these messages, except those upon spiritual 
healing, is, and how impossible except to the master 
stylist, if not to him,, it would be to copy the unstudied 
simplicity of a literary style long acknowledged to be 
a classic. 

Indeed the subject matter of the book itself vindi- 
cates the claim made of its authenticity. None but one 
could write upon these subjects, could speak thus with 
unassailable authority, could be in every manifestation 
the presence, the personality, he claimed to be. There is 
not the remotest possibility of the author of this pres- 
ent book's being the same person as the one who de- 



xxii INTRODUCTION 

livers the sermons that Dr. Wiggin delivers in his own 
consciousness; nor is there any less remote possibility 
of that author's being the same as the one who delivers 
the entranced sermons which bear the impress of the 
personality of John McCullough. The personality who 
speaks in these messages is unique in the experience of 
entrancement on the part of Dr. Wiggin, — is a per- 
sonality, too, unique in history. Of the truth of this 
statement the pages themselves bear sufficient witness. 

The busy life of Dr. Wiggin and his wife, Mrs. Ethel 
P. Wiggin, left but one evening in the week free from 
church meetings, class or lecture engagements, and pas- 
toral duties; that evening was Wednesday, and was 
usually spent at home. Occasionally Mrs. Wiggin's 
friend, Miss Edith B. Ordway, was a guest. It some- 
times happened that, as the three sat talking, Dr. Wiggin 
would feel the influence of the spirit presences, or pres- 
ence, and as John McCullough was always a welcome 
guest, Dr. Wiggin would permit the spirit guide to gain 
control. 

On the evening of Wednesday, February 9, 192 1, 
when Miss Ordway was present and John McCullough 
had also come, suddenly the latter, who was speaking, 
paused in his talk, and raised both arms straight up be- 
fore him, as in formal Oriental greeting. He resumed 
his talk and shortly finished the subject, then said: "A 
spirit presence has just entered here, one of the Great 



INTRODUCTION xxiii 

Teachers. I do not know whether or not he wishes to 
give you a message, but if he does, I will gladly make 
way for him." 

The conversation continued in a somewhat desultory 
fashion for a time, and at length Mr. McCullough said, 
"The Great Teacher is now going. He is evidently not 
intending to speak with you. You are highly honored 
by his presence here." 

On the next Friday, February u, 1921, at the Class 
in Spiritual Healing, which had been meeting weekly at 
two o'clock in the afternoon of that day during the 
entire season, the Great Teacher came unexpectedly and 
delivered the message which forms the record of Ses- 
sion 1 in this book. After this meeting was over, the 
message was read to Dr. Wiggin, who had been, as usual 
during entrancement, thoroughly unconscious, and had 
not been aware that he was not to deliver the afternoon's 
prepared lecture until the moment when he was suddenly 
seized, and who, also, supposed that the spirit was Mr. 
McCullough, as usual. It was decided that Mrs. Wiggin 
and Miss Ordway, both of whom hold university degrees 
and are shorthand writers,, with long secretarial and 
literary experience, should be present upon every occa- 
sion where there was the slightest possibility that this 
presence would appear, in order that not a word of any 
message from him might be lost. 

Thus it happened that both were prepared upon the 



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next Wednesday evening to take complete notes of what- 
ever might be said, should Mr. McCullough or any other 
presence come. The contents of the message given 
under the heading of Session 2 justified the expectation, 
which, previous to the change of control in the medium, 
was far from strong. On the next day Mr. McCullough, 
while dictating to Mrs. Wiggin some letters requiring 
psychic powers for their answering, said that it was the 
evident purpose of the Great Teacher to give certain 
messages on the Wednesday evenings; that the circle 
of three, — that is,, the medium, and the two who could 
take the messages in shorthand, — was complete, and 
should be neither added to nor subtracted from. 

The next day, Friday, made clear the twofold pur- 
pose of the Teacher: to come to the Spiritual Healing 
Circle, mainly there to bring the healing power of God; 
and to come to the Wednesday evening circle with mes- 
sages the chief purpose of which was instruction and 
revelation. 

Since then, and including the date of June 1, as the 
records plainly show, the coming of the Great Teacher 
has been as constant as opportunity could be afforded,, — 
and he has made no excessive demands upon the 
medium, as if realizing that the medium's other work 
was too important to be pushed aside for even the fuller 
revelation. 

Such is the record of the coming of the Great Teacher. 



INTRODUCTION xxv 

Of that coming John McCullough said on March 16: 
"I do not know just why he ever came into your midst. 
It is as yet an unsolved question. Perhaps that revela- 
tion may be made, and would be made, if you questioned. 
I only felt the vibrations of an unusual force, liable to 
come in at some near time. I did not know what it was." 

The evidence of the order in which possession is 
taken of the medium's organism has been given upon 
so many occasions, and always the same, that it is justi- 
fiable to assume that that rule is invariable. This order 
seems to be that Mr. McCullough first takes possession, 
and then the Teacher steps in, the one personality fol- 
lowing closely upon the other, so that there may be no 
interval of consciousness on the part of the medium. 
Upon the Teacher's leaving the order is, of course, re- 
versed. The period during which the taking of control 
is effected is several minutes, even when Mr. McCul- 
lough does not speak. He has tried to describe what 
takes place, in a way to be intelligible to those who have 
never experienced nor observed the phenomenon, and 
speaks graphically of the presences' overlapping each 
other, or, if not exactly that, following immediately 
upon each other. 

After the Teacher's talk on Wednesday evening, 
March 23, John McCullough said: 

"I am come. I can allow scarcely the lapse of a sec- 



xxvi INTRODUCTION 

ond to occur in the change of control. The intensity and 
the unusualness of the vibration of the Teacher are 
difficult for the organism of the medium to adjust itself 
to without assistance. The Teacher comes to you, in a 
certain sense, from many spheres removed from this 
vibratory sphere, — removed in consciousness, not in 
space." 

It is, indeed, reasonable to assume that the Great 
Teacher, living on a far higher plane of spiritual life, — 
or, to state it otherwise, embodying in his personality a 
far greater degree of spirituality, — than even the most 
spiritual still upon the plane of physical existence, 
should be in a far higher state of vibration. The de- 
gree of vibration of John McCullough's spirit presence 
is, of course, far higher than that of the physical 
body of the medium. Therefore it is easier for 
the medium that, instead of passing from one ex- 
treme to the other rapidly, there be an interval of 
poise upon an intermediate state. Mr. McCullough, too, 
through long years of frequent control of this medium, 
is, of course, able to obtain and relinquish that control 
with the greatest ease to the medium himself. The 
Teacher, on the contrary, as Mr. McCullough has ob- 
served and certain words of the Teacher's imply, is thor- 
oughly unfamiliar with this form of incarnation, and 
shows such unfamiliarity with it as to make Mr. Mc- 
Cullough say, "I doubt if he has ever attempted it be- 



INTRODUCTION xxvii 

fore." The Teacher himself said, "I have waited many, 
many years for this opportunity." 

More light is thrown upon the reason for such a 
coming as this by the words of John McCullough on 
May 25 : 

"The Teacher does not converse out here as I am 
conversing now with you. I cannot address him as you 
address me. I should feel, somehow or other, that I 
was taking unwarranted li! erties, and, if I did attempt 
it, I do not think that I should succeed very far. 

"These words that he speaks here to you I look upon as 
a second personal incarnation. You will understand — 
he is himself, but as he cannot make himself felt in this 
world of yours without some form of expression, he 
incarnates himself in words. Out here in the spiritual 
world he merely lives himself. Out here the living is 
that call to righteousness, to nobility of life. We of the 
spiritual world are sensible of that call, while you of 
the earth life are insensible to it unless it is put into 
words. When you come to know the Teacher, you will 
know the call by knowing the Teacher. I cannot make 
it clear to you, yet I see it clearly. Suppose I were 
clothed in purity and power, then my very walking down 
the street would be a call to the people to come and fol- 
low me, follow my way of living. 

"Out here in the spiritual world, there is little con- 
versation carried on. It is the very thought itself that 



xxviii INTRODUCTION 

is evident. It is not expressed in clamorous words. 
Every word you speak is a symbol. If I can get your 
mind, I do not care for the symbol. . . . 

"The mind of the spiritual world is trying to bring 
about an answer to the prayer, 'Thy kingdom come; 
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven/ " 

The narrative of just what occurs when the control 
is gained by Mr. McCullough and then changed to the 
Teacher is as follows: 

As every one who has attended Dr. Wiggin's public 
seances knows, only a quiet, sometimes almost an im- 
perceptible, change occurs when Mr. McCullough takes 
control. The eyes close, and remain closed, except for 
an occasional spasmodic movement or flutter of the eye- 
lids, the reason for which is not apparent to the observer, 
and probably has to do with thought. There are usually 
several slight movements, of hand or foot, as if the con- 
trol were becoming aware of the body through which, 
for the next hour or so,, he must communicate with the 
world. Apparently quite in accord with mental moods, 
Mr. McCullough is either quiet and restrained in ges- 
ture, or more active, more at home in the body, even 
to the point of pacing up and down the platform, — a 
thing that he has to do with some attention and pre- 
cision, as he cannot see physically. Although the cast 
of the features and the general expression differ from 



INTRODUCTION xxix 

those of Dr. Wiggin, the difference is only slight; and 
that is more reasonable than were it greater, considering 
all the many years of fraternal sharing of a single or- 
ganism and a single work, and the original choice of 
medium by the control, a choice that must have been 
in accord with deep-lying facts of temperamental fit- 
ness and abilities. In the talk, the method of delivery, 
and all that denotes individuality, the contrast of the 
two personalities is marked. 

When the Teacher, however, has arrived in the room 
and is ready to take possession, John McCullough brings 
his remarks to a close, and there is an interval of silence. 
Usually there is a sudden tremor through the medium's 
body, after which several deep breaths are taken. The 
entire body is tensed for a moment, and then thoroughly 
relaxed. The lips are pursed up very closely for several 
seconds. This may occur two or three times at intervals 
of a minute or two. The body is now made comfortable 
in the chair, and a deeper restfulness and peace than at 
any previous time during the trance takes possession 
of it. 

Slowly the right hand is raised, with arm lifted high, 
as over the heads of many people. That is allowed to 
sink, usually, before it is again raised with two fingers, 
the forefinger and the second finger, held straight out, 
the third and the fourth fingers bent down, and the 
thumb brought across the palm and laid upon the third 



xxx INTRODUCTION 

and fourth fingers. The gesture is one of blessing, and 
thus held, the hand is directed toward the group of 
people present, or, in the Inner Circle, toward each of 
the three people in turn, and then brought around 
across the medium's breast. This motion is sometimes 
made to each once, sometimes twice, and occasionally 
three times. Usually when the presence is through 
using the hand or arm in these gestures of blessing, the 
arm is drawn convulsively toward the body, as if atten- 
tion previously directed toward it had suddenly relaxed. 
This movement is never noticed when John McCul- 
lough is in possession. 

Besides the putting of the medium at ease physically, 
and the blessing of each of the three people, with con- 
sciousness directed toward each in a marked way, there 
is an inner blessing distinctly experienced, and this inner 
blessing is always adequate to meet any need of which 
the two who take the messages are conscious. In one 
or two instances where they were for some reason agi- 
tated, there was the most purposeful calming of that 
agitation, a complete elimination of it from the mind. 
At another time, when patience was very much needed, 
there flowed into the souls of the two a deep stream of it. 
After such preparation as this the message began. 

When the Teacher was about to leave, he would some- 
times say, "And now I go," or something equivalent. 
There was once or twice a murmured word almost under 



INTRODUCTION xxxi 

his breath, which the hearers could not catch, but which 
sounded like "Umung." They discussed between them- 
selves the meaning of it, as it did not seem intended 
really for them. At a later coming, the Teacher, as 
he departed, said quite plainly, "Ahnung'," at the very 
close of his words. The last time he came, the last 
words he said were to repeat "Ahnung' " three times, 
yet still not as if to the human listeners, or if for them 
to hear, not intended for them primarily. This word 
has not been looked up by the editors, but Mr. McCul- 
lough said that it meant "Good-bye," and was spoken 
to "the invisibles," — that great host of spirits who come 
more eagerly than we of this earth, to hear what he 
may have to say. 

After his last spoken word the hand was raised again 
in blessing toward each, there was a sense of the with- 
drawal of that consciousness from the features, and 
following a few seconds of silence, Mr. McCullough 
would say, "Good-evening, again." 

In two characteristics did the Teacher's control of the 
medium differ from that of Mr. McCullough. There 
was usually an appearance of effort ; especially was this 
true at first, and it has continued to be true whenever 
there was any difficulty in the way, such as extreme 
weariness, or absorption in thought. Then there was 
also a sense of novelty discernible in the feeling and 
thought of the Teacher when he had, as he always did 



xxxii INTRODUCTION 

before beginning his message, become thoroughly at 
home in the organism, made that thoroughly at ease, 
and begun to direct his attention to his hearers. 

One evening he said to those of the Inner Circle, 
"The garment that hung from the shoulders of Jesus 
was no more sacred than that he now wears," and there 
was obvious and unmistakable reference to the modern 
business suit that the medium had on, such reference 
as needed no more definite words, no direct gesture, no 
glance,, — just the startling force of the consciousness 
which directed the thought of the hearers to that 
plain brown business suit, — and this occurred weeks 
before the Teacher announced his identity. 

As to the medium's experiences under the changing 
of control, they have not differed from his usual ex- 
periences in passing under and out of the influence, save 
in two instances. His usual experience, as every one 
versed in the phenomena of trance states knows, is the 
stealing over him of a drowsiness immediately after he 
has become aware of a spirit presence, or spirit pres- 
ences, near at hand; this is followed, and has been now 
for many years, by complete unconsciousness. The very 
first time the Teacher took possession, the medium be- 
came unconscious so rapidly that he did not even realize 
that he was to be entranced. The second time, which 
occurred after John McCullough had been talking, the 



INTRODUCTION xxxiii 

medium was conscious of a few seconds of sharp pain 
throughout his body. He jumped with the suddenness 
of it at the time, and remembered it two hours later 
when he came back to normal consciousness. Appar- 
ently this occurred as a result of Mr. McCullough's 
eagerness to make way for the Teacher and the Teach- 
er's inexperience in taking control. Immediately those 
seconds were over, however, there was a most complete 
calming of all suffering, a settling into repose and com- 
fort, and the appearance of peace of a sleeping child. 
Only one other time was pain experienced, and that 
was at the Teacher's very sudden coming to the Inner 
Circle, when, by some mischance, there were a few sec- 
onds of semi-consciousness before he gained control. 
Upon awakening, the medium remarked, referring to it, 
"I never had such a racking moment in all my thirty 
years' experience of trance conditions." 

Notwithstanding the part that apparent inexperience 
played in the incidents just related, there was upon 
every occasion a complete occupation of the medium's 
organism, by the presence. Before there was any at- 
tempt to begin the message, the Teacher would so thor- 
oughly enter the body that, were there discomfort in any 
part, he would cause that discomfort to vanish, and he 
would settle the form into a reposeful posture. Upon 
one occasion, where a stiffness and soreness in the neck 
had been distressing, the spectators knew the instant that 



xxxiv INTRODUCTION 

the presence became aware of the wrong condition in the 
neck. Immediately a hand was lifted and twice laid in 
a slow,, stroking movement over the strained muscles, 
after which no further attention was given to them; nor 
did the medium at any time after his awakening need 
to give them the slightest thought. There were a few 
times when the Teacher's eagerness to get at the message, 
as it appeared, made him unaware of some slight bodily 
disturbance, such as a huskiness in the throat ; but when 
he became conscious of it, it soon vanished. 

Because of the medium's strenuous thought life the 
Wednesday evening seances occasionally found him with 
a very tired brain. It was not unusual for the Teacher 
to stroke the forehead of the medium a few times to 
dispel the trouble, although Mr. McCullough, preceding 
the Teacher, may himself have spent several minutes 
in passing the hand over it. Yet always there was this 
effect of the seances where the Teacher came: the 
medium,, after he had become thoroughly awake, was in 
a more rested and better physical condition than he had 
been before. This was noticeable to those associated 
with him; and the fact remains that, in spite of the 
extra hours of entrancement, and consequent extra 
demands upon his time and attention for teaching and 
healing and putting the messages into the publisher's 
hands, a new vigor and life are his. 

The above facts, which are inserted only as of possible 



INTRODUCTION xxxv 

interest to the scientist or psychologist, and have no 
bearing upon the value of the messages given, may, 
nevertheless, be evidential in corroboration of the theory 
that the higher spiritual states are states of higher 
vibration, and that the experiencing of such states is 
attended neither by danger nor by discomfort to one 
still in the body, but may be conducive to increase of 
physical vitality and well-being, though temporarily 
exhaustive of nervous energy and necessitating a deli- 
cate adjustment of the organism to the changing con- 
ditions. Some energy is utilized, but other and different 
energy is produced. The laws governing the use of that 
psychic energy are evidently as inexorable as any of 
the laws of the physical universe. Apparently, he who 
is master of spiritual power, even he holds his mastery 
only by conformity to spiritual law. 

The reader is requested to make careful distinction 
between the personalities using the one organism. Dr. 
Wiggin is absolutely unconscious, and is an involuntary 
actor, when in the entranced state. He has, therefore, 
to be made acquainted afterward with what happened 
and the messages received. John McCullough, Dr. 
Wiggin's usual spirit control, or his guide, always takes 
possession of the medium's body first, — though not 
always does he even speak, as was evident at many of 
the Friday afternoon sessions, — and also when the 



xxxvi INTRODUCTION 

Great Teacher's presence is leaving the organism. The 
Great Teacher has controlled the organism for periods 
ranging in length from half an hour to almost an hour 
and a half. The three personal pronouns, he, his, and 
him, are used to refer to the personality controlling at 
the time referred to, though the organism used is always 
Dr. Wiggin's. The emotions of the controlling per- 
sonalities are, therefore,, expressed, only through the 
face and bodily movements of the medium, and through 
the tones of his voice. To the close observer there is a 
very definite change of characteristics with the change 
of the controlling personality. 

The method by which the Great Teacher, who, as a 
Jew of the years B. C. 4 to A. D. 30, spoke the Aramaic 
tongue, — a Syriac dialect which at that time had super- 
seded pure Hebrew in Palestine, — spoke in English, was 
explained by Mr. McCullough on May 6, that is, after 
about two and a half months of observation of it. This 
explanation is as follows: 

"In the first place, the Teacher actually possesses the 
medium's physical body. As a matter of fact, the 
Teacher cannot use the medium's vocabulary. He does 
not know how to use it. He could probably cause a 
few words of Hebrew to be uttered; perhaps, however, 
he could not. He cannot possibly use the English lan- 
guage. If a Jew who could speak the English language 



INTRODUCTION xxxvii 

and the Hebrew, controlled this medium, there would 
be no necessity for any assistant. The Teacher 
has to be instructed by another how to use this lan- 
guage, in order to use it as he does. It is the Master 
who speaks, because he actually possesses this body, 
actually uses these English words ; but he has to be told 
by another what word to use before he uses it. That 
is one reason why he speaks so slowly. 

"The Master speaks, and you do not hear. He speaks 
to one who knows the English language. That one 
takes the thought, translates it into the English word, 
and gives it back to the Master, with the pronunciation. 
Sometimes he has to pronounce it over twice before the 
Master pronounces it. There is a third individual by 
whom the Master is aided in his endeavor to speak. 
I do not know who this other person is, but he tells the 
Master how to use the word, and helps him to pronounce 
it correctly. He does not necessarily know much about 
the subject. He stands near by, and is a sort of coach. 
I am not certain that at all times the third is used, or is 
doing anything except being present. The English word 
does not always convey exactly what the Master wants 
conveyed." 

The two who took the stenographic notes, who, with 
the assistance of the medium, of the spirit world, also, — 
at least John McCullough and some representative of 



xxxviii INTRODUCTION 

the Teacher, if not, at times, the Teacher himself, — 
furnished the subjects found in the margins, wrote the 
marginal notes descriptive of what took place; also the 
notes signed "The Editors," when such notes had to 
be inserted in the text; and are the writers of this 
Introduction. Their initials are sometimes given for 
clearness in the margins, and they are the ones whom 
the Teacher called "Martha and Mary." The descrip- 
tive and interpretative remarks signed by the name of 
John McCullough are part of the talks that spirit had 
with the editors through the medium, while the latter 
was entranced. 

With the exception of the portions of the manuscript 
here enumerated, all of which are plainly marked, the 
entire book contains only the words of the Great 
Teacher, who announced himself for the first time to 
the Inner Circle on Wednesday, April 27, 192 1, and for 
the second time to the Spiritual Healing Circle on Fri- 
day, April 29, 192 1, as Jesus of Nazareth. 

These words of the Great Teacher have received as 
accurate transcription as two different methods of 
shorthand, each supplementing the other, could afford, 
together with such a degree of intelligent comprehen- 
sion as lay within the capacity of the two to whose lot 
the privilege of the work fell. The marginal comments 
and the italicized words in the text are indicative of 
their effort to convey to the reader all that may be con- 



INTRODUCTION xxxix 

veyed of expression and gesture, and the emphasis is 
almost invariably the Teacher's own. When in the 
margin the words "earnestness" and "great earnest- 
ness" occur, they signify that the calm, straightforward 
tension of the Master's purpose, which made him noth- 
ing less than earnest at all times, was so increased as 
to be particularly noticeable. 

The name of the book, the heading of "The Inner 
Circle," and all points of any moment whatsoever, as 
well as the detailed plan for the Foreword and the In- 
troduction, have all been laid before the spirit forces 
for approval, and indeed, much of the minor detail has 
been decided upon under the suggestions of the spirit 
forces. Therefore, as far as it may be said of any book 
that passes through the process of human manufacture, 
— through human minds in action on the pencil, the 
typewriter, and the press, — this book has been given to 
the world directly and absolutely from the spirit side 
of life. 

It is impossible to convey except to "the understanding 
heart," and perhaps only to one blessed with many ex- 
periences of this Presence, what this Presence is and 
means in terms of personality. There is an unapproach- 
able dignity about him, and yet his great kindliness and 
outflowing love make him most approachable in the right 
spirit. All but the right attitudes of mind, however, 



xl INTRODUCTION 

hesitate to enter that circle of personal contact, or to 
call his attention to themselves. Yet none does his 
consciousness miss. Nor does it miss the deepest down 
need of any heart in his presence. Well did he say that 
his aura filled the whole room; his consciousness fills 
the hearts and consciousnesses of all present. He 
knows and understands. His discernment enters the 
heart whose door is unopened to his love. 

There is a stateliness about his gestures,, a flowing 
ease about his few movements, a dignity of carriage that 
even the unusual dignity of John McCullough does not 
equal; and whether he speaks slowly, as is usually the 
case, — especially at the beginning of messages, — or 
rapidly, as he occasionally does in the height of some 
forceful declaration, he speaks impressively. Inflection 
of tone, modulation of voice, as well as appropriateness 
of gesture, denote that even through the borrowed or- 
ganism a mind of no mean caliber expresses, and 
expresses unmistakably; for where words fail or break 
down with too much freight of meaning, consciousness 
carries. 

Those who have had the privilege of hearing the 
words spoken, cannot for a moment doubt but that, 
void of gesture, tone, or expressive face, the conscious- 
ness, the Presence, will still carry through the printed 
words. For there was no doubting the power of that 
consciousness. Through closed eyelids the gaze was 



INTRODUCTION xli 

often so direct as to be penetrating; the quality of that 
penetration, whether happy and smiling, or calming, 
or convincing, or discerning, was unmistakable. He on 
whose lips were so often the words, "peace," "happi- 
ness," "love," breathed upon those in his presence those 
very qualities. He who spoke so often of "my Father 
and your Father," "the Great Deific Principle," "our 
Father and Mother — God," showed so clear a realiza- 
tion of the presence of that Father that his attitude was 
always receptive of it, like the child's attitude; always 
humble and unassuming, because never arrogating to 
himself in any portion of his thought even the Christ 
power as his exclusively or primarily; always outgoing 
to those about him, as one who had indeed learned the 
lesson of service and knew no higher joy. 

With such a consciousness, in such a Presence, there 
was, of course, the outward manifestation of it, a lumi- 
nosity, a soul light, shining through the flesh at times 
with a radiance visible even to the eye of flesh. At the 
times when memories of unspeakable sorrow made the 
lips tremble and the eyelids quiver, and the voice to be 
filled with emotion, even then the face was not dark. 
And when joy, the joy of utmost service, of ultimate 
triumph of the truth he spoke, of mankind's entrance 
into the home of the soul, when such joy was on the 
features, and his smile from being tender became almost 
ecstatic, then the glory of the soul who spoke was clearly 



xlii INTRODUCTION 

visible, and could have been concealed from no one 
whose eyes rested upon the face. 

The work that the Great Teacher came to do,, the 
message for the giving of which he deemed it wise to 
come in this way, was for the whole world. At no mo- 
ment was the whole world, the whole of humanity, 
absent from his thought. His attitude, therefore, was 
impersonal, universal, or, rather, like his message, 
personal to everybody. Those whom he honored with 
a share in the work of giving the message, he treated in 
the same impersonal way. They were his "mediums, " 
his helpers, co-workers with him. Yet there was some- 
thing more in his attitude, and that something more, 
the three through whom he worked think, is, like the 
message, for everybody. 

His attitude toward the real medium, the one whose 
organism he used, was most helpful, beneficent. He 
recognized, in the exacting services of healing, the 
necessity for limiting the inflowing of the spiritual 
forces to that which the organism could endure, and 
endure with nothing of strain. He never failed in his 
curative care, in his especially definite and intimate 
blessing of that one. The medium was far less privi- 
leged, however, in the very nature of the case, than were 
the editors or those present at the services of healing, 
because of his inability consciously to be present when 
the Teacher was. 



INTRODUCTION xliii 

To the two editors, however, there was a personal note 
in the midst of the impersonal. It would have been 
enough that he chose to call them, by two names very 
dear to him in his earth life; but beyond that, and his 
care in meeting in every way their needs, his care in 
safeguarding them, as much as possible, from the criti- 
cism that his message was sure to arouse, — aside from 
such helpful thought fulness,, there was a total absence 
of anything savoring of condescension, and, moreover, 
a responsive friendliness, even a very tender brotherli- 
ness, which, according to his words, will not cease with 
the work, but go on "forever." 

This personal touch, this intimate brotherliness to 
each one separately, — that is surely as thoroughly in- 
tended for everybody as any other part of his message. 
It is this brother attitude that he most longs to establish, 
the fact of this actual human brother relation that a 
very important part of his message asserts. And does 
not the world of humanity owe it to him whom they have 
pained by worship instead of emulation, that they open 
their hearts to this brother as to a brother, that, by so 
doing, they may share his filial attitude of acceptance 
of all the great blessings of life, of Peace, and Health, 
and Happiness, and Love, from his and all humanity's 
Father and Mother — God? 

Ethel P. Wiggin 
Edith B. Ordway 



THE LIVING JESUS 



THE LIVING JESUS 

SESSION 1 

Spiritual Healing Circle 

( The Great Teacher, whose identity was at 
the time unknown to any one present, first 
came unexpectedly at a meeting of the Class 
in Spiritual Healing, which was conducted 
weekly by the medium, the Reverend Frederick 
A. Wiggin, D.D., at Brookline, Massachusetts. 
It was unusual for the medium to be entranced 
on these occasions. One of the two who could 
take the stenographic notes and were usually 
present, was absent throughout almost the 
whole time of entrancement. The other, enter- 
ing after the presence had taken control and 
not knowing immediately that he was not John 
McCullough, did not at once realize the impor- 
tance of the communication. Therefore the 
first two paragraphs were not taken verbatim, 
but are reported from the statements of others 
present. 

The Editors.) 



2 THE LIVING JESUS 

The Soul. Good afternoon, friends. 

Response i am not Mr. McCullough, but I am one of 

by the ° 

class, and the Teachers. 

sSd^Good I passed over into this life centuries ago. I 

Mr er M°cCui- ^ ave come to ne ^P y° n > to nea ^ vou > by enabling 
lough." you to bathe in my aura, into which I have 
gathered up all the healing qualities of the 
spiritual world. These healing qualities are 
the great life-giving qualities. They are like 
the sun, Sol, in your world. 

The sun, Sol, is always shining. The sun 
is never dim,, and yet the sun of the physical 
world does not always express itself, show 
The day itself, to all people. It is not doing so even 
stormy. this very moment to you people, and yet it is 
shining now as brightly as at any time. It 
never expressed itself better than it is express- 
ing itself now. If you could go up a little 
distance, or down, — it matters not which way 
you state it, — if you could go from the earth 
upon which you stand, a comparatively short 
distance, you would come to realize the truth 
that the sun was never shining more brightly 
than now. It is not shining upon you, yet it is 
shining for you. It is not shining upon you 
because of the mists and the fogs that are down 
in the lower strata close to the earth. The 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 3 

sun's rays do not penetrate this atmospheric 
condition, but the sun's rays will conquer these 
fogs and mists sometime, and then they will 
shine out for you, for you all. It is not for 
you to attempt to rid this atmosphere near 
the earth of this very state which shuts out the 
sun's rays. It is for the sun to do, and the 
sun will do it. 

I have been talking about the sun only to 
bring more vividly to your attention the simi- 
larity in relationship to things as a whole of 
the soul which you are, and the sun, Sol, Soul 
of the physical world. When the soul expresses 
itself, happiness, health, and every degree of 
good are in the individual, around about the 
individual, the very aura of the individual. 
Whoever comes into that aura must of a neces- 
sity be benefited. 

In the human life there are mind states 
existing, which are analogous to the fog states, 
the rain, the intensely dense moisture of the 
physical world, which shuts out the rays of the 
sunlight. There are mind states analogous to 
these fog states to which we have already 
referred. It is not for your body to lift these 
fog states, these mind attitudes. It is for your 
soul to do that, or, rather, you, as a soul. As 



THE LIVING JESUS 

a bodily individual, of course you know, you 
do not control and govern the soul, but the soul 
is the governor of the physical. Yet, as we 
have shown you already, the soul is not capable 
of expressing itself fully unless these material 
damps, these mind attitudes which prevent that 
full expression, are removed or taken away. 

When the Master of whom you know was 
here upon earth, those who entered his aura 
sphere were invariably benefited. I do not de- 
sire to seem to you in any way lacking in 
reverence, sacrilegious, arrogant, egotistical, 
but through the centuries I have been able to 
build up an aura equal to the aura that sur- 
rounded the Great Teacher. You are now in 
that aura. 

You cannot see that aura. You are feeling 
it now. You cannot see it, because you have 
not clear vision. When the soul fully ex- 
presses itself, there is always clear vision. 
Clear vision beholds the thing. Where clear 
vision is only partial, or altogether lacking,, 
nothing is seen but a certain reflected feature 
of the real thing. 

You do not know yet exactly what health 
is, though you seek it, you desire it. Health 
is not only a feeling; it is more than a sense 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE $ 

or feeling. When filled with health, of course 
you feel well, you feel good; but feeling well 
and feeling good are not of themselves health. 
They are feelings of which you have a sense, 
and which are produced by health itself. 

Health is a very tangible something, because 
it is soul. The soul must fail of fully express- 
ing itself where ill health, or disease, expresses 
itself in any measure. Ill health is one of the 
fogs and damps. It is of the fenlands; it is 
not of the soul. As the soul is you, you are 
gods in embryo. And your soul, fully ex- 
pressing itself, claims such a birthright and 
such a powerful prerogative in the world of 
matter as does God claim; but because it does 
not fully express itself, it frequently fails to 
claim its own, its true relation to the Great 
Over-soul of which it is a part. 

You would have no desire for health and 
happiness were it not for the soul. Every 
ambition which you may have, — ambition to 
conquer passion, ambition to desire to be well, 
desire to have many friends and true ones, 
desire to love the world in which you live, and 
God included, your desire for material success, 
— every ambition or desire of your nature is 
but the demand of the soul. The soul is con- 



THE LIVING JESUS 

stantly demanding an opportunity for fullest 
expression. In so far as the soul expresses 
itself in one, that one is always good, — good in 
the sense of being valuable. 

A great many people have thought of the 
individual soul as of temporary individual 
existence. Millions have taught, and more 
millions have believed, that the soul functions 
in association with a certain individual for a 
certain length of time, and then becomes 
merged into the Great Over-soul, sometimes 
called by some "Nirvana." This is not so. I 
am not unmindful that, if you good people here 
to-day were merged into an individual soul, if 
you were to be one, that one soul would have 
ten times the soul power that you, individually, 
hold at this moment. Strive as you might, you 
would not be yourselves possessed of indi- 
viduality, of the realization of living, of the 
functioning of the life power that before that 
absorption you possessed. 

It is God's great gift to Himself as a Soul 
that He divides His Soul into trillions and 
trillions and trillions of parts. And it has 
been ordained that these should not be merged 
into one another, but through a development 
from the embryonic expression into the deific, 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 7 

they should be like unto the whole, but yet 
apart, developing into the creative power; for 
development is always into more and more of 
creative power. That power is the great 
source and end of the universe. 

Human souls, even, do create a little. It is 
in the destiny of the soul's future to become 
the very master of the creative principles of 
nature, even to the extent of being able to 
create worlds, for the universe holds plenty of 
space for more worlds by millions. The soul 
desires health and happiness, and it, like unto 
the sun in the physical world, makes constant 
endeavor to penetrate the fogs and the damps. 
It makes constant endeavor to remove these. 

There is a wonderful relationship existing 
between the intellectual faculties of the in- 
dividual and the soul faculties, and yet they are 
separate and distinct. They work together, 
but not always harmoniously ; and whenever a 
clash of opinion arises between soul power and 
purely intellectual faculties,, always trust the 
soul, for the soul is always right. 

A great many people have no desire to be 
influenced by spirits, even by exalted spirits, 
and this is well. A great many more than this 
number desire advice from the world of spirits. 



8 THE LIVING JESUS 

Getting this advice, they sometimes believe it; 
sometimes they are in doubt about its value. 
Sometimes they make practical use of the ad- 
vice ; sometimes they refuse to be guided by it. 
Whenever a spirit offers the advice, it is a soul 
out there in the world of spirits offering the 
advice. If people would learn to consult their 
own souls for information, they would be able 
to get as good advice as any other soul could 
give, after their souls found an opportunity to 
express in a way normal to the soul. 

The voice of your soul, speaking to itself, is 
the voice of the angel, and, more than that, it 
is the voice of God. "Vox populi, vox dei" 
does not mean, however, that the howl and 
tumult is the voice of God. The voice of the 
people becomes the voice of God only when the 
soul speaks, — not when passion, swaying the 
mob, shouts its clamorous and unreasonable 
demands. The time will come when "Vox 
populi, vox dei/' will be true, because the soul 
of the individual is to express itself in a way 
normal to soul expression. 

Then the scales will fall from the eyes of 
the blind. The lame will walk, and walk 
freely and buoyantly. The deaf will hear not 
only the sound of a neighbor's voice here in 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 9 

the earth life, but will hear the sound of their 
neighbor's voice out in the spirit world. The 
deaf ears will be unstopped, and even that voice 
that is 

"so still and sweet 
That there is naught 'twixt it and silence," 

will be heard. 

The soul is not stirred by noise and clamor. 
The soul seeks health and happiness,, and the 
absence of mental disturbance, the relating of 
the very heartbeat to the very rhythm of Divine 
Purpose. The soul desires that love, like unto 
that of the Infinite, shall be a feeling-power in 
the individual. Consequently, it struggles to 
experience that love, to live it out. 

Love is a thing, a great potent thing. Not 
many are acquainted with it. Some have seen 
its phylacteries, its robes, its outward adorn- 
ments. Some have witnessed its movements, 
have listened to the rustle of its skirts and its 
robes as it passed. Some have seen its very 
self in the face of a friend. But the thing 
itself has yet to find its revealment. God is, 
and God is love, and I must know love, and I 
must know God. This I, that is you, that is 
God, and this God is love. 



io THE LIVING JESUS 

Love is not very well expressed when it is 
turned entirely upon self. I love myself suffi- 
ciently to give myself for the good of all the 
souls in the universe. As a spirit I have grown 
to that, and I am doing that. 

I am here this afternoon to treat you, not 
so much to talk to you. I am faithful in 
presenting you a few facts, as I have come to 
know them. In a way which you do not see, 
I am as faithful in healing you. You are in 
my aura, which extends farther than the con- 
fines of this room. The aura of the average 
individual extends about three feet, while here 
and there one highly developed faculty sends a 
ray of light shooting out indefinitely. My 
aura extends about thirty feet around me and 
above and below. This aura is made up of the 
entirety of the God-help. I have gathered it, 
and I come here this afternoon to lay it at 
your feet,, to give it to you. And after you 
have been here a little while, I take it away, — 
but I leave it with you. 

You can never shut it out of this room. 
This room will always remain. Though by 
conflagration or by any other process this 
building should be razed to the ground to- 
night, this room would remain, and the fact 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE n 

that we were here will always be indelibly im- 
pressed upon the great Akasha of Nature. 
You cannot destroy anything that is positive, 
that is, that is absolutely of God. You can 
destroy only the negatives of life, and those 
you cannot destroy; you merely extricate your- 
self from the negatives, and they are as if they 
were not. 

Sickness is a negation. Your soul is able 
to raise you out of this negative state. You 
will be raised from this negative state this 
afternoon, for it is not often that any of you 
earth people have the privilege of coming into 
such an aura. It is mine, but I am God's, and,, 
therefore, the aura is God's aura. You are 
God's, and you are gods in embryo. You 
could not be God's, were you less than gods. 
All that is God's is like unto God. From this 
moment you shall be better, and I mean you. 
I bring to you now the healing elements of the 
spiritual world. You shall be better from this 
moment. In these elements you are now 
bathing, you are inhaling them, you are imbib- 
ing them, you are drinking them in. This 
aura is my love, and I bring this love which is 
mine. With you it shall work, and in you it 



12 THE LIVING JESUS 

shall work, and love works only for good, for 
benefit, for uplifting help. 

A great many hundred years ago I left the 
terrestrial sphere of life, and have been 
journeying on. I have journeyed on, not in the 
sense of distance, nor in the sense of distance 
from the old earth, but toward recognition of 
the great truth that I am God. I was not of 
the Orient, I am not an Oriental teacher, and 
yet I am of the Orient. My earth life partook 
not at all of the Orient, neither of the Occident. 
I was born into the world peculiarly. I was 
born out of it in a very unusual way. I moved 
among men, and they did not know me. I 
came and I went, and while everybody recog- 
nized me, none knew me. 

I come to you just the same to-day, — to bring 
the / to you,, that you may possess it. You shall 
come to know me by knowing your own self. 

I shall go even as I came, leaving with you 
just the /. That is all. 



SESSION 2 

The Inner Circle 

("A lot of people have entered here, includ- 
ing relatives and friends of you all. . . . The 
Teacher is here. He honors us with his pres- 
ence. I wish that you could see him. I don't 
know that he is going to speak. I am reminded 
of that quotation — Is it from 'The Revela- 
tion'? — 'His countenance was as the sun 
shineth in his strength/ I thought of it as I 
saw this Teacher. Yet how simple he is in his 
attitude! He does not come in here in any 
sense as if he felt any superiority — not in the 
least, and we know of his superiority, all of us 
who are here. We feel a greater degree of 
pleasure in the fact that he is here than you two 
people can feel. His coming helps me very 
much, and I want to get all the help I can, be- 
cause the more I get, the more I can give. 

"He just spoke to me, and he tells me that it 
would be helpful for him to speak to you upon 



14 



THE LIVING JESUS 



The 

Teacher 
took 
control. 

Hand 
raised in 
blessing. 

Purpose 
in Life 



a subject that, on account of his age in the 
spiritual world, he could set forth with perhaps 
a greater degree of accuracy than most others. 
He thinks you might find it to your profit for 
him to speak to you sometime upon the Lost 
Atlantis. It is very interesting, and, as he 
might speak of it, it would become a statement 
of knowledge that ought to be preserved." 

John McCullough.) 

Good evening. 

Life's aspirations and life's ambitions are 
invariably timed to purpose; therefore, the im- 
portance of a well-established, well-grounded 
purpose. The soul has from the beginning a 
purpose which prompts aspiration and ambi- 
tion correctly, but the soul is not as yet free. 

Were you to draw two lines exactly parallel 
to each other across the page of your book, you 
might extend those lines indefinitely in a 
straight course, and they would still be parallel 
and would not cross one the other ; but, should 
you stand here, where you could begin, your 
vision fixed, as it were, upon the lines drawn 
upon your book, and then let your vision fol- 
low the lines out, out, out yonder, they would 
soon cease to reveal parallelism through becom- 



THE INNER CIRCLE 15 

ing merged. There would be, to your vision, 
out yonder there only one line. 

The intellect and the soul should travel, 
while in the sphere wherein intellect can be 
permitted to function, parallel, — parallel in the 
sense of a balance, — and, if these two do 
travel that way, with you, with any one, not 
by virtue of any law of perspective, but as an 
actual fact, at the time of so-called death they 
merge,, and so completely do they merge that 
the intellect is swallowed up in the soul-line. 

I know it was a long road, a very long jour- 
ney, from Pilate's throne, from Pilate's court, 
to Golgotha. It was a long road, because of 
the deep-seated purpose wherein intellect and 
soul-purpose were in perfect adjustment. 
Think you that the road was long, or seemingly 
so, to the two thieves? No. It was short. 
Why? Because their purpose did not carry 
them beyond physical death. Neither did it 
elevate them above the plane of fear. But to 
the one with the purpose it was a long road, be- 
cause ambition prompted a deliverance from all 
that this turmoil of earth meant. Ambition 
prompted entrance as soon as possible into the 
glories of the Father, the home out yonder,, 



16 THE LIVING JESUS 

where the intellect would become swallowed up 
in the soul. 

Time to the individual is purely a matter of 
relativity. If the purpose is to succeed in a 
temporary manner, or way, or sense, ambition 
and aspiration correspond to that quality of 
purpose, and doubtless the purpose will be real- 
ized; but we see, we know, that, when that is 
the height of ambition, of aspiration, after it is 
gained, it is as with the child who, blowing a 
rounded° beautiful soap-bubble, casting it off into the 
floating atmosphere, clapping its hands once or twice 
off, one with joy, sees it explode. It is gone, and it is 

sharp clap . 

of hands, as if it had never been. 

der aT° n " Such a purpose is not that purpose to which 

vanishing, i WO uld have you time your ambition and as- 
pirations. I would have a purpose that dealt 
with the material; I would have a purpose to 
wade through every sea of opposition in the 
material world ; but I would have that purpose 

stretched ^° ^ e Y on ^ tnat > invariably out, out, not only 
into the world of the excarnates, but to be 
somebody in that world. If such a purpose is 
well grounded, I repeat again, ambition and 
aspiration will time themselves to that pur- 
pose, and that purpose will be realized. 

Oh, it is so much, so much, to be conscious 



THE INNER CIRCLE 17 

of being somebody; at every step of the jour- 
ney it is true,, but especially when in the journey 
of life one reaches out into what you call the 
beyond, and finds one's self there somebody! 
It is a terrible thing to be anywhere, at any 
time, with the overwhelming consciousness of 
this truth, — I am nobody. And yet in many 
ways we have to become nobody in order to 
become somebody. 

The soul, the self, is the only reality. All 
else is but a dream — but a dream. The soul 
is supremely conscious of this truth, but for 
man to be supremely happy in this truth, his 
intellect must keep pace with, and on a road 
running parallel to, the soul's course. I am 
somebody because I am conscious, because I 
am conscious that I am. I have been nobody, 
and it was a hell for me when I discovered that 
great fact that I was nobody; but it was 
Heaven again when I discovered that I could 
be somebody. That discovery was but the 
soul's power to touch the intellect into a con- 
sciousness of the truth. 

It is strange, very strange in a way, that 
human beings cannot come to a recognition of 
their duality of being. They will come to such 
a realization. They are coming to such a 



18 THE LIVING JESUS 

realization ; but only a small minority of human 
Pause. beings is coming to such a realization. 

It is not so necessary, just now, to drive the 
devils out of the swine, as it is to drive the 
swine out of human communities. 

I have come, I have brought my blessing. 
And now I go my way, and will come again. 

Impressive TU at j~ a ll 
gestures of inat 1S a11 ' 
blessing. 



SESSION 3 

February 



1921. 



Spiritual Healing Circle 



Right hand Good afternoon. 

fingers™ I have come here this afternoon to bring 
m^bfessfn benefit to you, not so much by anything I may 
over the ' have to say, perchance, as just to bring that 

heads of . . 

the people, which must of a necessity benefit you. 1 bring 
to you the most that any one can bring, because 
I bring to you myself, my self in its entirety. 

Soul and The soul which dwells within the man recog- 

Intellect . ,..,..-,. , 

nizes as a soul its individuality, but it recog- 
nizes no separateness from the great Over- 
soul, God, because there is none. The soul, of 
itself, is natural to a sphere of perfect and 
absolute peacefulness. It is in and of itself 
peace. When it was said, "I and my Father 
are one," there was in the intellectual and soul 
consciousness of the being saying it, — conse- 
quent upon the perfect balance existing be- 
tween the intellect and the soul, — an absolute- 
ly perfect understanding of the fact that there 
is no separateness between the soul individual, 

19 



20 THE LIVING JESUS 

the human soul, and the Over-soul. Yet both 
the soul and the intellect when properly ad- 
justed to its plane of highest function, declare 
an individuality of soul, and the soul knows of 
the continuity of that individuality indefinitely, 
eternally. The soul only knows this. The in- 
tellect does not know it. It cannot know it. 
The intellect lives in the realm of disturbances 
if for no other reason than this, that it func- 
tions entirely in the realm of the reasoning 
consciousness. 

No man can reason about anything unless 
he relates that thing, in his reasoning processes, 
to some other thing, or considers at least two 
aspects of the one thing. Reasoning is a mat- 
ter which depends for its logical sequence upon 
many things, but surely the adopting of a cor- 
rect hypothesis enters vitally into the whole 
plan and process; for however close, careful, 
accurate may be the reasoning process of any 
man who starts off with a wrong hypothesis, 
the result will not be correct. 

If you can find peace, you will have to have 
found health, for in the absence of health no 
human being can realize peace. If you can find 
peace, you will have to have found happiness, 
for devoid of happiness there can be no such 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 21 

thing as perfect peace. If you would find pros- 
perity, you will have to have found peace, for 
there can be no such thing as absolute pros- 
perity without peace. Yet it is well to reckon 
correctly here. Happiness,, prosperity, and 
health are not the forerunners of peace, but 
peace is the forerunner of happiness, prosper- 
ity and health. Therefore, one of old, as you 
sometimes refer to it, said, "Seek ye first the 
kingdom of Heaven and its rightfulness, and 
all these other things shall be added thereunto." 
Therefore, peace is that which should be 
sought after most diligently, urgently, and 
confidently, until it is found, for, when it is 
found, all else is found with it. 

It is a most marvelous thing, I assure you, 
— this consciousness of peace. If any of you 
have found it, you have indeed been fortunate ; 
but it is, if not with you now, just beyond the 
door. Knock, and the door shall be opened 
unto you. Seek for it diligently, and you shall 
find it. For to every one who knocketh it shall 
be opened, and to every one who seeketh, that 
which is sought for shall be revealed. 

The word pitris is rather more of the Orient 
than of the Occident. It really is a very prom- 
inent word, or, rather, has been in times gone 



22 THE LIVING JESUS 

by, and the meaning of it is, as perhaps all of 
you know, "spirit ancestry"; in other words, 
one's ancestry or ancestors who have passed 
out from the limitations of the physical body 
into the world of spirits and of spirit. 

We know very well that the force helpful in 
character which may come from loved ones 
who have passed out, is beyond all measure or 
possibility of human estimate; and yet, not- 
withstanding that fact, it is but as a drop in 
the great ocean when compared with the great 
Universal Spirit in its power to help. That 
great Universal Spirit is all-sufficient. It 
knows of absolutely no limitations. It gives 
recognition to no such thing as a miracle. The 
human intellect gives recognition to miracles, 
and in doing so, recognizes that which is not, 
— not for the first time in this specific relation 
either, nor the last. The human intellect con- 
siders whatever happens in life outside of the 
ordinary, or anything above the seemingly ex- 
traordinary, as miraculous. The soul knows 
that there is no such thing possible as a miracle. 
Should one of you here this afternoon be suf- 
fering with a cancer, and your healing should 
take place immediately, most of you would de- 
clare that it was indeed a miracle. It would 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 23 

not be a miracle. It is perfectly natural to 
the great All-sufficient Power to accomplish 
that very thing. 

This great Universal Soul-self is vital. It is 
not only vital, it is altogether so ; meaning by 
that, there is not a shade of weakness in its 
vitality. It is all-vital, altogether vital, — vital 
in its power, vital in its knowledge, vital in its 
activity, — and it is all yours. 

The woman tremblingly touched the hem of 
his garment as he was walking along, and he 
felt virtue going out from him, and inquired, 
intellectually, "Who touched me?" And be- 
cause of the woman's soul-and-intellect contact 
with that virtue, she became healed of the 
bloody issue, which was a cancer, healed im- 
mediately. That one power can do it, — can 
heal immediately. It is the only power which 
can heal, either immediately or in the course 
of time. No matter how much you may resort 
to the use of materia medica, no matter how 
much of virtue may be actually within it, it has 
no virtue excepting that one virtue, — the All- 
sufficient Power of God. That virtue is in 
materia medica. Its love and desire to help 
you are shown forth in the flowers, — its pur- 



24 THE LIVING JESUS 

ity in the white petals of the pond lily, its love 
in the heart or yellow center. 

"Go to the ant, thou sluggard, and learn of 
it," — learn not only of its industry, learn of 
its confidence. Its confidence, so far as it goes, 
is absolute. The flowers are beautifully 
clothed; the birds are fed. O ye of little faith, 
are ye not more than the sparrows, the birds, 
the flowers? God, this great Infinite Power, 
careth for the birds. He gives life, energy, 
and expression of beauty to the flowers. Trust 
Him. He can make you well, if you are sick; 
He can keep you well, if you are well, — if you 
will come into the recognition, intellectually 
and soul fully, of the great fact that you and 
the Father are one. You can rise to this 
height. Will you? That is the question — 
will you? 

Nicodemus went to the Master by night, and 
he told the Master all that he had done. And 
what he said was spoken truthfully, — he had 
been a philanthropist. And the Master listened 
to all that he had to say, and then, turning, 
said to him, "You must be born again." It 
was a mystery to Nicodemus, — this being 
born again, — but it is as simple as simplicity 
itself. He that is born of the flesh is flesh, and 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 25 

he that is born of the spirit is spirit. Again I 
say unto you, Ye must be born again, — born 
of the purification of your own life, born of 
water and the Spirit. 

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I 
have gathered thee together, even as a hen 
gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye 
would not!" These are words which were 
spoken long, long ago. They are in a measure 
as applicable to this generation as to the gen- 
eration of long ago. More and more clearly 
from day to day is being given to the world the 
revelation of truth, — the revelation of that 
relationship which mortals bear to the immortal 
feature of nature and of life. But of what 
value the revelation unless aspiration prompts 
the individual to make use of all that is re- 
vealed ? None. 

Why sit ye in darkness ? Why mourn by the 
wayside, waiting for some one to take you up 
and carry you on? Look up, O child of im- 
mortality, to the great Over-soul and to self. 
Rise upon thy feet. Thy limbs shall not weary 
upon the journey, if the soul prompts every 
step. Rise up, and shake off the lethargy. 
Free yourself from its binding cords. Free 
yourself, and yourselves, from the bondage of 



26 THE LIVING JESUS 

the flesh. The whole world with all of its ever- 
present blessings, the world and all of these, 
are yours. Ye are sons and daughters of God, 
brothers and sisters to all the teachers of the 
past and of the present. None has ascended 
so far up, up into the celestial and soul atmos- 
phere, as to have lost interest in the struggles 
of the weakest, of the most immature. 

Vitality, soul vitality, should be daily and 
hourly thought of. If you are conscious of a 
weak organ of your body, bring the soul vital- 
ity to bear upon that weakened organ. Pray 
for it to be vital like unto the vitality of the 
soul, for to these organs of the body, while 
you inhabit the organism, you can project soul 
potencies, soul vitality, because you are a soul, 
and as such you have this vitality, you are thus 
vital. 

Do not depend too much upon pitris. Here 
is wherein so many fail. It matters not how 
far on in the journey of life a soul has traveled 
before you, that soul is a soul, and you, as an 
individual, are a soul, — a soul as closely 
linked up to the Over-soul as is the soul of the 
individual who has journeyed on before you 
for thousands of years out here in the world 
of excarnate beings. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 27 

Peace — vitality ! Oh, there is such vitality 
in peace that peace becomes at once an all- 
sufficient strength ! 

Travel back with me a few steps, two thou- 
sand years, — it is but a little, — and see the 
man who declared that he and the Father were 
one, standing in the presence of his disciples. 
Listen. "My peace I give unto you." "Peace 
be unto you." That individual understood the 
value of peace. 

Can we find peace? Yes. Shall we find 
peace ? That is a question the individual must 
answer. You can, — will you ? You have but 
to seek it, — the great Christ principle is suf- 
ficient to grant it to you. 

Between two and three thousand years I 
have traveled the hilltops of the spiritual world. 
Between two and three thousand years I have 
seen the gradual rising of the Sun of Heaven. 
I know that Sun will never find the zenith. It 
is not to rise to set again. It is rising for you, 
just as much as it is rising for me. It will 
never reach the meridian line, and yet through- 
out all the eternities it will be rising. 

This statement seems inconsistent to you, I 
know, but can you not grasp the idea that the 
great sphere apparently becomes greater as 



28 THE LIVING JESUS 

this Sun of the Heavens comes up, up, and up? 
It becomes larger, not in reality, but its actual 
enormity becomes better and better understood 
by you, — you upon whom this Sun shines to- 
day. This Sun is burning out all the dross of 
the universe. Its endeavor is to give freedom 
to the soul and to its expression. It is to bring 
the soul of every individual into a conscious- 
ness of the "I and my Father are one/' 

Between two and three thousand years I 
have witnessed no phenomenon of darkness. 
It has been, and will continue to be, one day. 
Indeed, the Revelator had it right when say- 
ing, "There shall be no night there." Between 
two and three thousand years I have known — 
I have known not so much as a moment of ces- 
sation from labor, and yet I have known no 
such thing as weariness. I have experienced 
no sense of any feature of exhaustion. This, 
which has been mine in experience, is to become 
yours. 

A certain man had a son who became weary 
of the father's home, and he said to the father, 
"Give me my share in the estate, that I may 
go my way." The father granted the request, 
and he went off by himself, and spent his sub- 
stance in riotous living; at last he was reduced 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 29 

to that plane where he fain would have eaten 
the husks, the offal, refused by the swine, but 
no man offered it to him. Coming to himself, 
he said, "I will arise and go unto my father, 
who hath bread enough and to spare." And he 
did arise and go. And the old father, looking 
away down the road, saw him coming, and ran 
and met him, and fell upon his neck and 
blessed him. 

Sickness, unhappiness, lack of prosperity — 
these are features upon which so many feed, 
are feeding, because they have drifted away 
from the Father's supply. Yet they will awake. 
Thousands are awakening. All will awake 
ultimately, and they will come to themselves, 
come to the ego consciousness, and will say, 
"Now I will arise and go to my Father, who 
hath health, happiness, and prosperity to 
spare." And when such a determination be- 
comes a fixed purpose, they will go; and before 
proceeding far upon the journey, the Father 
will meet them,, and his blessing will fall upon 
them, the blessing of health, happiness, and 
prosperity. 

The Father, the Over-soul, stands ready to 
give to you all, to give to you Himself. Ye 
are indeed His children. He loves you with a 



30 THE LIVING JESUS 

love that is infinite. He does not delight in any 
pains or suffering of yours. All the pain and 
suffering of life exists because the spiritual 
stomach refuses to digest the husks. It de- 
mands the real food. And when intellectual 
prompting comes to rescue man from his false 
position, he will feed upon the nourishing 
viands of the Almighty, and enter into the en- 
joyment of what they bring, give, — all that 
is good, — health, happiness, and prosperity. 

I have come to you to-day as one journeying 
upon the highway of life which had no begin- 
ning and has no end. I come to you as a broth- 
er, because we are all children of one Divine 
Parent. I come to you to bring my blessing, — 
humble, just one of you. And now I leave you 
for to-day, and go my way, leaving with you 
all that I can leave with you. 
, Th e And now I go. 

blessing 
of all 

present. (« Good afternoon. 

"The Teacher desired me to say to you that 
this talk of his this afternoon was a lesson 
rather more intended for you personally than 
as a statement which was of general or uni- 
versal interest. 

"He is a very exalted being, and you are 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 31 

greatly honored by his presence. I cannot tell 
you who he is. I do not know that you 
will ever be informed, but I think that you will 
some day when he comes. I did not say that 
I did not know who he was, but it is not for me 
to tell you. 

"If I have profited by this talk of his more 
than you have, it is because I have understood 
it better. It was very simple. A thing may 
be very simple to the teacher that is very diffi- 
cult to the student. 

"This Teacher is upon a work, and that 
work will be completed within a very few 
months, and a part of that work which he is 
setting out to do will be given to the world in 
his own way, and is going to be of unusual 
value to the world. What we have received 
this afternoon we must appropriate, all that 
we understand of it, to ourselves. 

"This spirit, in being here, brought an atmos- 
phere, a radiance that completely filled this 
room, and more than that. And that atmos- 
phere I perceive to be very largely a healing 
atmosphere, which he brought to-day. I am 
as certain as that I am present here, that every 
one of you will feel physically quickened, — 
unless, perchance, there is one here who feels 



32 THE LIVING JESUS 

to reject the message that has been brought. I 
would advise none of you to reject it, for I am 
very certain that if the time comes when you 
find out who the Teacher is, you will wish you 
had not rejected it; because I am sure that the 
Teacher is one who speaks not arrogantly, but 
as one who has authority, true authority, — 
'He speaks as one having authority.' 

"I am, myself, almost overcome by just what 
that spirit has left here. He has left here 
something that was akin to that which was 
said years and years ago by the Great Teacher, 
— 'My peace I leave with you! He leaves an 
aura, a vibratory force, in the room. It is filled 
with it. You will take some of it away with 
you when you go. 

"I wish that the entire human family could 
be so blest with this presence as you have 
been/' 

John McCullough.) 



SESSION 4 
The Inner Circle 

My greetings. 

Let peace come to this house. 

Sensing, as I do, your welcome, I will bring 
to you a thought and possibly also a few state- 
ments historical in character. 

When one of the Apostles stood on the hill 
bearing the name of one of the planets swing- 
ing in space to-night, he spoke of the worship, 
or character of the worship, of the people, and 
he declared that they did not know what they 
worshiped, or whom they were worshiping. 
The attitude of the majority of Christians to- 
day is one similar to that of the people whom 
Paul confronted while standing on Mars Hill. 
They worship, but they have far from an intel- 
ligent understanding of the object of their 
worship, neither do they understand overwell 
the nature of that great psychological factor 
which has had the effect of deflecting the mind 
in its attitude of worship from the one true 
God to certain creations of His. 

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34 THE LIVING JESUS 

It is with respect to psychology and its influ- 
ence upon the human mind that I would speak 
to you briefly, and in connection with a fact in 
history with which you perhaps are not over- 
familiar. 

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was born of peo- 
ple who were nothing less than esthetics, and 
when Mary was a mere child, she was given 
over to the care, in the line of her spiritual 
training as well as her general education, of 
the institution analogous to the church of the 
present day. She was brought up, in other 
words, in the immediate surroundings of, and 
actually within, the Temple. In this Temple 
and its surroundings prayer was being con- 
stantly offered to Deity, asking for Heaven's 
blessings; and there was a wonderful degree 
of sincerity of purpose within the mind and 
soul life of these Fathers of the Church. They 
had not become polluted, as some have, with 
the idea of making of God's House a mere 
den of thieves. 

Mary moved in the midst of these people, 
joined several times a day with them in prayer, 
and her life became, as an innocent child, most 
thoroughly consecrated to the highest concept 



THE INNER CIRCLE 35 

which was possible to her, — of the really- 
spiritual side and nature of life and living. 
She lived in this atmosphere, and believed so 
thoroughly in the Fathers of the Church that 
it would have mattered very little to her what 
any one of them might have said as being right 
in conduct, she would have thoroughly believed 
that what he said was the absolute truth. 

Years went by while she lived in the midst 
of these conditions, until she became of a cer- 
tain age when it was incumbent upon her, by 
virtue of the rules of the Temple, to go forth 
into the world or to renounce the world. In 
renouncing the world she would become at- 
tached as a worker, for the remainder of her 
physical life, to the Temple and its work, going 
no more forth to mingle with the people. She 
determined to adopt the latter course. This 
was at a time practically three, months before 
the hour in which she must render her decision, 
and her final decision, and during this three 
months she sought particularly the advice and 
help of one of the priests. The priest had 
been reared in the same purity of thought to 
which we have referred as that in which she 
was reared while an inmate of this institution. 



36 THE LIVING JESUS 

Their lives were thrown together. Something 
more than that which we should deem, in any 
external sense of thinking of it, as spiritual, 
entered into the combination of this associa- 
tion; and Mary, before the three months ex- 
pired, became certain that, as a direct conse- 
quence of an act in which she had indulged, 
she would ultimately become a mother. 

History reveals, of course, that she became a 
mother in due course of time. 

Do not lose sight of the psychology here, 
simply because, as yet, the whole world has 
lost sight of it. The child that was born to 
Mary was the direct consequence of this par- 
ticular psychological condition, which was de- 
veloped during her stay in the midst of these 
associations spiritual in character. The son 
that was born to her was the psychological 
product of a love-conception and thoroughly 
spiritual surroundings during her stay in the 
Temple, and especially during the first two 
months of her pregnancy. 

One of your modern poets has said, 

"Whoever was begotten by pure love, 
And came desired and welcome into life, 
Is of immaculate conception," 



THE INNER CIRCLE 37 

and the boy that was born to Mary was of 
immaculate conception, — was born of love, 
and came desired and welcome. 

The boy grew to manhood, served humanity 
as he served his God, and served his God by 
serving humanity ; and the world called Chris- 
tian to-day unwittingly worships him. The 
great thing which the world loses sight of and, 
therefore, fails to turn to a divine purpose, is 
that which is involved in the psychology of the 
child's physical birth, that which is a part and 
parcel of the child's rearing. And the Chris- 
tian world could in no way serve God so sat- 
isfactorily as it could if it served Him as He 
was served through the psychology of the time 
referred to, that which was practised in con- 
nection with the birth of that boy. For that 
boy never could have become the man that he 
was later, had it not been for this wonderful, 
Gesture of marvelous, constant, psychological spirituality, 
emphasis. j n ^ m idst of which he lived even as a thought 
before he lived as a physical expression. So 
thorough and complete was the development of 
this psychological condition that the soul, while 
in the council chambers of Heaven, knew in 
advance what it would mean to it to gain a 
place in the sacred chamber of Mary's womb. 



38 THE LIVING JESUS 

I am endeavoring to make it plain to you and 
to the world that the thing needed most to-day, 
above all others, is not the regeneration of 

R . h human kind, but the proper generation of hu- 

hand man kind. 

lifted and 
directed to- 

one d f C the ("There is only one thought from the tree 
circle in f zuisdom in my mind now — 'The latchet of 

turn, with . . , r , , . 

fingers heid/m" shoes 1 am not worthy to stoop down and 
blessing, unloose/ 

As Mr "Some time yon will know, as I do, how the 

McCul- world of truth has favored you. It favored 
took con- the Men of the East who were led by the star 
showed t° the manger, and even the dumb cattle and 
great emo- sheep were blessed there and then. . . . 

tion, as 

if much "It is terrible to think that there are so many 

by P the Se w ^° have e J es t° see an d with them they see 
Presence, nothing, and ears with zvhich to hear and they 
voice failed hear nothing. Blessed are you, — and I am 
words of not the one to bless you, — and greatly blest 

tion- qt tears are y° u > oecaus e °°th °f y ou > having eyes to 
were on S ee, do at least get glimpses, and having ears 

the lids of ' i , i ... 

his closed to hear, do at least hear the distant murmur 

hoovered °f ihis great truth in its endeavor to come and 

hi ith e h? S a ^> an< ^ help right all wrong. 
hand. "How my soul leaps ivithin me, — leaps al- 

pause. most like a lion or a tiger in the cage, — when 



THE INNER CIRCLE 39 

/ think how earnest is my desire that the large 
multitude that we reach from week to week 
might be able to have, in the sense of appreci- 
ating it, just what you two, you three, have, 
and do, in a measure at least, appreciate. . . . 
"H is face was more radiant than an angel's. 
His general appearance was so mild, so sin- 
cere, that the sincerity filled the whole atmos- 
phere/' 

John McCullough.) 



March 2, 
1921. 



The 

Boyhood 
of Jesus 



SESSION 5 
The Inner Circle 

May joy and gladness come to this house ! 

Good evening. 

I realize that the debt which I owe is so 
great that I must endeavor at all times and by 
all just means to cancel it. The debt I owe 
to you and to the world is no larger than the 
debt which you owe as individuals, but the 
realization of the enormity of my indebtedness 
and obligation is different from that realization 
which has as yet dawned upon your under- 
standing. In other words, I must be constant- 
ly about my Father's business, — the business 
of your Father as well, because your Father is 
my Father, and my Father is your Father, since 
we are brother and sisters. 

I am here to-night to perform a little duty: 

first, to you I would pay the obligation of a 

certain indebtedness I feel; and then, and 

through you two,, cancel an obligation I owe to 

the world. 

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THE INNER CIRCLE 41 

I know that the little which I may say to 
you, the few words which I may speak, will be 
read by millions, and, for a time, disbelieved by 
as many as read them ; but I can see far enough 
into what is commonly designated as the future 
to be sure that the unbeliever will become after- 
wards the believer, for I know full well the 
value of the salt of truth, and I know that the 
salt I have to give has not lost its savor. 

It seems a little strange that, after the pass- 
ing of two thousand years, it should be incum- 
bent upon me to tell the world, through you, 
that which should have been told to the world 
two thousand years ago, and would have been 
made clear to the understanding of the people 
had it not been for a prejudice born in the 
cradle of ignorance. 

It is more than remarkable that so much of 
light gathers around the head of him who was 
crucified, when it is known how diligently so 
many, at the time when Jesus lived as a man 
and in all subsequent ages, have worked to 
shroud that light in the darkness of prejudice; 
but ever does truth come uppermost, and ever 
will justice be done, if npt now,, then sometime; 
and time is merely a term, and, outside of the 



42 THE LIVING JESUS 

puny limitations of the human mind, means 
nothing. 

It is concerning that little isthmus of time 
connecting the soul's mainland with its prom- 
ontory, and stretch, and neck, of a later physi- 
cal association, I am to speak; of this boy 
Jesus, — what he was, some tilings which he 
did, how he was looked upon and considered 
during the first twelve years of an earthly, 
bodily existence. I am to do this simply be- 
cause it was not done by others,, and because 
it should have been done by others. The latter 
aspect of this cause is indeed reason sufficient 
for what I am about to say, for I know that 
what I am about to say is ultimately to reach 
the farthest ends of the civilized world. 

Why is it that the world to-day has absolute- 
ly no history of that boy, of his life as a boy? 
It is simply because of what that boy, as a boy, 
was to the community in which he lived. 

As you mark and measure time, one week 
has passed since I called your attention to 
certain forces associated with prenatal condi- 
tions. Perhaps, as I spoke to you then upon 
this subject, your minds naturally jumped from 
the prenatal, psychological conditions to an 
effect which was shown forth in the life of 



THE INNER CIRCLE 43 

Jesus after the age of twenty-three. This, if 
true, is but natural, for you know nothing 
about the life of this youth. 

I suppose that you will be able to see, and 
willing to admit, that the man Jesus, as you 
know of him in the few years prior to his leav- 
ing the earth, was characterized by spiritual 
manifestations, the exhibitions of psychic 
powers, — and yet that word psychic I knew 
nothing about as a word until just recently. 
However, the real psychic exhibitions, which 
were directly the immediate consequences of 
these psychological conditions prenatal to 
Jesus, were set forth in a most pronounced way 
during the first twelve years of the child's 
journey in the physical form, and, because that 
life was one of constant exhibition of psychic, 
soul manifestations, the historian would not 
relate it to the world. Now you begin to see, 
I think, why I feel that I have to do that which 
another should have done. 

I have nothing to say in particular concern- 
ing the first four years of this boy's earthly 
life; but even in these earliest years of physical 
expression or being, remarkable spiritual man- 
ifestations took place, such as did astound 
those knowing of them. When he was at the 



44 THE LIVING JESUS 

age of five, the little neighborhood became 
alarmed by virtue of a small incident. 

(If you wish to put it into parenthesis, you 
may say, /, the speaker, know, — and I will 
yet prove how I know, before I get through, — 
all about this boy, all about this boy.) 

At the age of five this boy was playing by the 
side of a pool of water. The earth around 
about this pool was of clay, or a clayey sub- 
stance, and out of this clay, with his little 
chubby hands, he moulded a dozen pigeons, clay 
pigeons. A neighbor's boy, coming along, 
larger than Jesus, picked up a pebble and threw 
it at the clay pigeons with the intention of 
destroying them and to annoy the boy Jesus. 
When he saw the missile coming to his little 
flock of clay pigeons, he clapped his hands and 
said, "Shoo-oo," and they flew off into the air 
as any pigeons alive would do. 

Jesus said nothing about it. He seemed to 
take it as a very natural thing, nothing unusual 
at all, but the other boy became frightened, and 
it was only a short time, I can assure you, be- 
fore every one in the neighborhood had heard 
his story. Of course, none was inclined to 
believe it, and yet they did believe it, and they 
simply waited to see what else might possibly 



THE INNER CIRCLE 45 

come to pass, for so many things had taken 
place similar in character to this little incident, 
that they were prepared to be surprised at al- 
most anything. 

One day little Jesus was sitting in the front 
yard of his father's abode; his father was at 
work in a shop at the rear of the little house, 
and the mother was busy within the house 
about her duties, when a very savage dog, one 
probably who had "run mad," as the saying is 
with you people, came plunging toward the 
boy. The father, looking out from, the shop at 
just that moment, realizing the entirety of the 
situation, took up one of his carpenter's, sharp- 
edged tools, and ran toward the dog and the 
child. The child looked up and, with a smile 
upon his face, clapped his hands again, and the 
savage dog became at once a peaceful lamb, all 
covered with wool. 

Again, the father, being a carpenter, was 
employed to put into a little church, a little 
gathering-place, a plank. It was to be adjusted 
to a sort of an ecclesiastical throne, perhaps we 
will call it, and it was necessary that it should 
measure just seven feet in length. By some 
mistake the father cut it off one inch too short. 
As it was valuable wood, he was greatly dis- 



46 THE LIVING JESUS 

turbed at his error. The boy, then about nine 
years of age, observed his father's disturbance 
of mind and asked him what the trouble might 
be. He was told, and looking up into his fa- 
ther's face, he said, "Father, do not let that 
worry you at all. We will make it fit." He 
passed his hands over the plank lengthwise, 
and it became at once sufficiently long to meet 
the demands of the seven-feet measurement. 

These are only three little instances out of 
hundreds and hundreds of seemingly super- 
natural manifestations. 

A man became a maniac, and it was at about 
the time when Jesus was eleven and a half 
years of age. The man lived in the neighbor- 
hood, up to this time highly respected by every 
one and much loved, because he was lovable 
and sane, and in every way an agreeable neigh- 
bor. He became madly insane, and by this time 
the neighbors began to think that possibly the 
boy could do something for this insane man. 
They asked Jesus if there was anything he 
could do,, and, like a child, laughing, not over- 
thoughtful about it, apparently, he said, "Yes. 
Bring me a donkey." 

And they brought the donkey. 

"Now," he said, "bring me the bad man." 



THE INNER CIRCLE 47 

And they brought to him the man afflicted with 
insanity. 

The boy stepped before the ass, looked it in 
the face, patted it on the forehead, and said, 
"I am sorry for you, but you are not so valu- 
able as a man. You've got to be insane, and 
the man must be well. ,, 

He bade the insanity leave the man and enter 
the ass. The insanity obeyed his voice, and 
the ass went galloping down the street and 
finally into a river where it drowned itself, but 
the man was made perfectly well, perfectly 
sane. And the boy's name became a name well 
known throughout all Judea,, just as a boy. 

When his father and mother took him up 
to the Temple at twelve years of age, the doc- 
tors and lawyers had heard of him, and there, 
you know, you have a brief glimpse of his life. 
It lasts with you but for a day, and you lose 
him again, and where you lose him I will find 
him for you a week hence. 

I have come and spoken to you concerning 
something which the world should know. 
Jesus was a medium. In these early years of 
his physical life it is true he said but little, but 
through his sensitive being the upper world 
performed in hundreds and hundreds of cases 



48 THE LIVING JESUS 

things which the people of that time called 
miracles. 

That is all. It is probably too much that I 
have said for this one evening, and, therefore, 
I am, to leave you and go my way, but to come 
again, and again, and again. 

Spoken (Before this work of mine is completed for 

variational the world, other interests may claim your at- 
wordecfby tention, but do not desert me.) 

the editors 

from 
memory. 

Change of ("What can a man do after a king has been 

control. here? 

"I want to impress upon you (turning to 
E. P. W .), that I can see that your husband 
is not only chosen for a great work, but that 
he is to be greatly helped in that work. 

"I am not seeing that this Teacher has come 
to put me out of the work that I am doing, but 
to qualify me the better to stay in. I did think 
it possible that my opportunity for helping 
might be somewhat abridged, but this Teacher 
has not come to do general work such as I do. 
He will never teach nor preach, nor speak 
through this medium from any public plat- 
form, if I understand his purpose rightly. I 



THE INNER CIRCLE 49 

can realize that he is fitting me to stay in this 
work, rather than to leave it. He has made 
me discontented, unsatisfied, by holding up two 
principal possibilities of the future, — possi- 
bilities of teaching and possibilities of healing, 

— and by making me realize that my work now 
falls short of these possibilities. Yet I am not 
discontented or discouraged, especially as I 
know that all advance is by gradation, not by 
sudden leaps. 

"I see, also, the possibilities for you two. 
The universe of which you. are a part has places 
in it waiting for you, far better than those of 
this world in which you live. There is for 
each of you one of the 'many mansions/ I can 
understand the meaning of those words now, 

— 'In my Father's house are many mansions. 
I go to prepare a place for you,' — of going 
and preparing. Your mansion is prepared for 
you. Your mansion is a soul mansion, and not 
one of ivood and stone. 

"The Teacher has much to say to you before 
he gets through." 

John McCullough.) 

(There was a pause and the silence of medi- 
tation after Mr. McCullough had said, "Good- 



50 THE LIVING JESUS 

night" ; then, as he was about giving up the 
control, he said in so low a voice that the hear- 
ers could scarcely catch the words: 

" 'Had I ten thousand lives to give, 
Freely should they all be Thine. f " 

The Editors,) 



March 4, 
1921. 



SESSION 6 
Spiritual Healing Circle 



The Open Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If 
any man will open that door, I will come in 
and sup with him, and he with me. 

I am come that ye might have life, and have 
it more abundantly. 

I am, not, my brothers and sisters,, referring 
now to some unreality of Nature, for if your 
eyes were open to see spiritually, you would 
see this room flooded with that more abundant 
light, life. I am come that ye might have life, 
and have it more abundantly. 

Would you know God? Would you come to 
an understanding, a soulful understanding, of 
what is meant by the great Christ principle of 
Nature? Then look anywhere around you. 
You need not go away even from here. It is 
not necessary that you should travel forth into 
the country to see Nature and to study her 
moods. She is everywhere. God lives in Na- 
si 



52 THE LIVING JESUS 

ture, and expresses Himself in and through 
Nature. 

You are living just now in a peculiar era, 
age. Hours mean more now than months did a 
little while ago. Influences from the higher 
realm of life, — I might say the highest, — are 
finding their way as never before into the soul 
needs of humanity. 

Many, many years ago one said, — a teacher 
of his time, — "Pray, Thy kingdom come and 
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven/' 
and for nearly two thousand years some have 
prayed that prayer. They have prayed it, and 
have passed on into the realm of excarnate 
beings. Others have followed in their footsteps, 
and have repeated that prayer over and over. 
The soul has longed for an answer to that 
prayer; and the soul of humanity became de- 
pressed almost to the point of despair when, 
after having prayed, "Thy kingdom come and 
Thy will be done," so earnestly, it was con- 
fronted with the roar of cannon and the clash 
of arms, with nation rising up against nation, 
with life, human life, seemingly of slight im- 
portance; but out from the despair comes to- 
day the more earnest cry, "Thy kingdom come, 
Thy will be done on earth," and the time is 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 53 

near, it is here, when that prayer is being an- 
swered, answered. 

The healing of the nations, — "Thy kingdom 
come, Thy will be done," that is the only an- 
swer to the one who cries for the healing of 
the nations. The healing of the individual, — 
"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done," in 
that is found the answer. By the power of the 
word ye are healed. As a teacher of the spir- 
itual world, I would rather teach humanity 
the laws of health, just now, than any other 
one thing; for the law of health is the law of 
happiness, and the soul and mind that are 
happy will not only praise God, but in their 
happiness and through it will God be glorified. 
Make no demand for physical health at this 
great throne of grace, God, prior to making a 
demand upon yourselves, a demand for your 
own fitness to receive. 

I speak to you not as of the scribes and 
Pharisees of old. I speak to you not specula- 
tively or theoretically; I speak authoritatively. 
I have traveled in the universe for over two 
thousand years. I have suffered all that man 
could suffer, and have had my cup filled with 
anguish and sorrow ; but I have stood, as well, 
upon the very heights of spiritual joy, and I 



54 THE LIVING JESUS 

have had my cup filled with blessings, filled full 
and running over. 

I have seen your travelers of earth coming 
with unsteady step to the very edge of the 
grave. I have seen them come thus from the 
old, the middle-aged, the youth, and the infant ; 
and I have seen them leave the human form, 
coming on, on, into the world where physical 
death can never be tasted again; but I have 
seen them coming out here crippled even as 
they were cripples while living in the human 
form, and I have learned that even the expe- 
rience of death hath not within it the power 
to change. 

Change that is legitimate is only another 
word for growth, and as I have traveled these 
years, I have come to know that the blessings 
of the Infinite are for all life, and for all life 
everywhere; and among the richest of His 
gifts is the gift of perpetual opportunity, per- 
petual and never-dying, never-ending oppor- 
tunity. 

Therefore, I know that the crippled will not 
always be cripples. I have seen this fulfilled. 
The lame will walk, the blind will see, the deaf 
will hear ; but there is another blessing which I 
have discovered and which you are to discover. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 55 

The lame may walk now, the blind may see 
nozu, and the deaf may hear now. By the 
power of the word you may be made whole 
now. A holy power that is in your midst now 
is reaching to you, effectively. You are receiv- 
ing divine health this moment. You are living 
in its very atmosphere. You are becoming a life 
that is of its life. You are being blessed this 
moment, most of you, beyond compare. Two 
of you are not being blessed. Behold, I stand 
at the door and knock. If any man open the 
door, I will come in and sup with him. I only 
knock until the door is opened. It is for you 
to open the door. 

I have traveled extensively not only through- 
out the universe, but all over your world, all 
through it. Your world, dear children, is a 
very limited one as yet. Your world will en- 
large as you grow, and you will grow out of 
your world into this vast universe. The world 
is not yet redeemed, but there is a power suffi- 
Long cient to redeem it. I would not seem to you 

gesture. other than what I am; and what I am, in the 
entirety of myself, I would not seem, to you, 
for you are not yet able to stand that much — 
not that much. But I am your brother. My 
life is linked up with your life so intimately 



56 THE LIVING JESUS 

that I love you, and love is that golden link 
which wears only one way, and that is, brighter 
with time. 

He who stood years and years ago in Jerusa- 
lem's streets and her temples cried aloud to the 
people out of a heart, out of a soul, conscious 
of Deity's truth, and they heard only to mock. 
He spoke the truth, and they accused him of 
being in league with the devil. He stood upon 
the hilltop, and cried again, "O Jerusalem, 
Jerusalem,, how oft would I have gathered you 
together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens 
under her wings,, but ye would not!" 

That same character told his disciples, "I am 
going away, but I will come again." And 
throughout all the hours, the days, weeks, 
months, years, and centuries that have passed 
since that divine promise was made, his word 
has been kept; but then, more than now,, but 
somewhat still, he came unto his own, and his 
own received him, not. Still he has kept com- 
ing, and will keep on coming, until the world 
is redeemed from its error. Your happiness 
and your joy, I know,, are all involved in the 
great idea of your redemption. Sometime life 
will become like unto one large play house, and 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 57 

you, the children ; and with childlike minds you 
will enter into the joy of all that play life, 
because of your redemption from sickness, 
from pain, from suffering,, and most of all, the 
cause of it all, — selfishness, selfishness. 

I do not expect to help many of you much by 
what I say here at this time. I am not here 
for the purpose of saying much. I am here 
to do, and to do much, — to do that much for 
you and for the world through you; for this 
spirit power which I bring, will help you, and 
it will help you to help others. Thus, by casting 
the pebble of good endeavor into this little 
human pool here to-day, I know that at last 
the great ocean of life will vibrate to this one 
simple touch given to life here at this hour. 

I know you ask in your minds, some of you, 
Who is it that is speaking? Be patient with 
me. I intend to tell you, but not to-day. When 
I have in my simple way reached you, — not 
your minds, but you, — when I have reached 
you, as I shall ere long, or at least some of you, 
then I shall be free to talk to ycu, for I shall 
have gained your confidence; because, when I 
have reached you, you will know me, you will 
know me. 



58 THE LIVING JESUS 

I bring to you from my very life just help 
for your need. I bring to you the most that 
any one can bring, — I bring to you myself, and 
upon the sacred altar of your need I give my 
all as an offering. As you go hence this after- 
noon, — all but two of you, — you will carry 
with you the blessing of one who loves you and 
who loves the world. All might do so,, if they 
would but open the door. Behold, I stand at 
the door and knock. If any man open the door, 
I will come in. I come to bring you life, more 
abundant life. I direct your minds to the 
study of Nature, that through such a study 
you may come to know God and yourselves 
In coming to know God, you come to health, 
you come to supreme happiness, you come into 
a realization of that greatest of all things — 
life, life. 

I have come to you this afternoon in the 
spirit of love and desire to help. Just say of me 
that I am your brother. Having visited you, I 
now go. A week hence I will come again, and 
I will knock again at your door. If any man 
rise and open the door, I will come in. 

Before I go, if there is any one here who 
really seeks the blessing of health, you will in- 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 59 

dicate it, and come over here and sit down, and 
Ministry I will heal you. 

of healing 
was given 

people! •"■ wou ld like to reach every soul with a bless- 

ing, but I cannot use this instrument further 
this afternoon. 



SESSION 7 

i 9 2i. c 9 ' The Inner Circle 

('7 am going, for I see a great company of 
witnesses coming on white horses, attending 
the Great Teacher, as is their wont. . . . Yes, 
I shall be with you; I do not have the privilege 
of coming into this presence except when I am 
here, for our paths lie on different planes." 

John McCullough.) 

Peace and Let peace and happiness come into your lives. 

Peace and happiness are everywhere. They 

are all about you, at all times; that is why I 

said, Let peace and happiness come into your 

lives. Do not shut it, — peace and happiness, — 

out. It is frequently shut out, — peace and 

happiness, for they are but as one, — and to do 

so is a mistake. It is not a fact that people like 

to make such a mistake. It is because they 

have not love, real love, that they seem to like 

to make a mistake; if they had love, love such 

as one is capable of having and expressing, 
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THE INNER CIRCLE 61 

they would not like to make mistakes. Permit 
love to come in, — that is my message to the 
world, — and do not enter into the error of even 
thinking that peace and happiness can come to 
the world without love. 

The Youth After he had advised with the teachers in 
hood of the Temple at Jerusalem, when at the approxi- 
mate age of twelve, there took place a very 
unusual thing in the life and movements of 
that youth known as Jesus. 

It is true that Jesus caused a great deal of 
worriment for his father and mother. Prior 
to the age of twelve he had brought all sorts 
and kinds of confusion into their otherwise 
peaceful, contented life. They did not under- 
stand the events and occurrences of a spiritual 
character in connection with the life of their 
boy ; but just after the time to which we have 
referred, the climax of their worry was cer- 
Long tainly given to them. 

This event has to do with levitation. The 
youth Jesus was not surprised at all, because 
he had been spiritually informed previous to 
this time, at the occurrence of levitation. He 
was taken up by spiritual beings and carried, 
probably within the space of what may be 



pause. 



62 THE LIVING JESUS 

called three hours now, from Jerusalem's 
streets into Egypt. His father and mother 
knew not that he had gone. They heard abso- 
lutely nothing concerning his whereabouts for 
approximately six years from that time, when, 
by the same mode of travel, the young man was 
brought to their house, and remained there for 
practically thirty-six hours. Then again he 
was taken and carried back to the teachers 
with whom, he had been during the seven years 
of his absence from his home in the little town 
out there, much despised, called Nazareth. 

Although he was richly endowed with a 
spiritual understanding of truth, and in a way 
and by such means as have been referred to in 
a previous talk, he nevertheless realized the 
necessity for, and importance of, gaining 
strength spiritually, because he saw ahead, in 
a revelation, that there would come a time 
when he would need all the strength which the 
spiritual teaching could impart to him, for it 
was spiritual strength that he knew he was to 
need. 

His method of learning was largely akin to 
that which you would probably call absorbing, 
— absorbing from those with whom he min- 
gled. There were not many of them in num- 



THE INNER CIRCLE 63 

bers, but they were great in strength, in 
spiritual attainments. If his life, as he lived 
it, were to be observed by one living in your 
midst at the present time, it would probably be 
characterized as one of indolence, for the time 
was largely spent in lying about upon the 
ground in the midst of the teachers, who also 
reclined upon the ground. They taught, it is 
true, by word ; but they taught more effectually 
by projecting an invisible soul-knowledge to 
this wonderful character, as they considered 
him, this youth, this young man, Jesus. 

Approximately at the age of twenty-three, — 
after these years had been spent in absorbing 
the spiritual instruction coming from God 
down through the teachers to the teacher, — as 
he was one bright, beautiful morning reclining 
in their midst, lying there under the sunlight 
of Heaven, he heard their words, and he 
noticed that the voices became fainter and 
fainter; marveling at this, he looked up and 
saw his teachers passing through the air, hand 
in hand, going from him, yet looking back upon 
him, radiating a light, and a spirit of encour- 
agement and cheer. They went until they 
disappeared, and then a voice from Heaven 
spoke to him, saying: "You are ready. You 



64 THE LIVING JESUS 

are prepared. Come." He arose to follow, the 
invisible forces seized him, and in a short time 
he was back again, walking the streets of 
Jerusalem. 

Jerusalem was not strange to him then, but 
he was a stranger to Jerusalem. He was a 
changed individual. He was indeed prepared. 
In Jerusalem he taught, much after the manner 
that Socrates taught in Athens; and was not 
particularly noticed, except as a man of wis- 
dom, for nearly four years after his return, to 
which we have just referred. And then began 
the work, the real work. Much of that has 
been placed before you in the Four Gospels,— 
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. 

Through his living, he developed that ex- 
al'ured alted selfhood, — I mean he evolved it, — which 
words, face ena bi ec i him to speak, even while upon the 

quivering ^ ' r 

with emo- cross, when the greatness, the God-greatness,, 

word within him, gave him the power to speak as 

anTa*' no otner man na( i spoken, or has spoken since, 

g t est S re i* f — when he said, "Who is my mother?" — when 

the hand. . . 

Uplifted he said, Father, into Thy hands I now commit 

face, with i r >> 

light myself. 

Srolf^it Through this preparation which he had 
at the^ made, — he had made, — he could see his body 
greatness."" pierced, taken from the cross, placed in the 



Slow, 

me; 



THE INNER CIRCLE 65 

tomb. He was enabled to enjoy the conscious- 
ness of a peaceful, inhering knowledge and 
understanding that that body was nothing to 
him and that it never could be again. He 
knew that his enemies had taken all that they 
could ever take, and in the joy of himself he 
was really glad to be ridded of that which they 
seemed to think was of such value to get. 

So they buried the body — and then it was 
stolen ; but he was equipped with the power to 
reproduce a semblance of that body, which he 
did, and at the proper time. In doing so, he 
was blessed with the privilege of declaring 
himself at last to humanity, — the brother of 
humanity, a son of God. "Touch me not, for 
I have not ascended" as yet out of the mists 
and damps of your earth atmosphere unto your 
God, your Father, my God, and my Father; 
but "Go and tell my brethren you have seen 
me alive/' And in that semblance of the old 
physical body he appeared to many; his 
disciples came to know him, and he said to 
them upon many occasions, not reported in 
the Gospels, that which I have said to you 
to-night, "Peace and happiness come to your 
lives." 

At the appointed time he dis-assembled that 



66 THE LIVING JESUS 

simulated form of the old physical body and it 

faded away, as the real being just went up; 

Gesture and as he went up he called back to them, 

hands* in 1 "Peace and happiness, may it ever be with 

benedic- yQu/ , 



tion. 



Usual 
gesture of 
blessing, 



Now from this time what I have to say to 
you, Martha and Mary, will have to do with 
principles of life and living. I go,, but will 
come again with a far more vital message, with 
far more vital messages, than this one has been ; 
but this one has been necessary, as you will 
later see, before bringing to you the greater 
messages awaiting you, awaiting you. 

("I am here again. I do not dare to let that 
influence go out, leaving the medium, without 
myself mediating the change in control/' 

John McCullough.) 



SESSION 8 
Spiritual Healing Circle 

May peace and health come to every soul 
here. 

"Glory to God in the highest ; peace on earth, 
good-will to men." 

"If any man love me, he will keep my word." 
These words were repeated over and over again 
years and years ago. "If any man love me, he 
will keep my word." The one who made that 
statement used no idle words. His every word 
was law. And he meant by these words, If 
any man love me, he will keep the law, and the 
law is expressed to you in my words. 

"Ye are the temple of the living God." The 
Divine Guest is not always recognized, and 
yet He lives in you, He moves in you, He has 
His being in you. He is never far away from 
any soul. Faith is a quality of mind, and that 
quality is a divine quality. Although as a 
panorama the great good of life is constantly 
passing before your eyes, you have not the 
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68 THE LIVING JESUS 

power to take in all, all that it suggests, all 
that it means, — not yet, not yet. Except ye 
become as little children, ye cannot enter into 
this kingdom of your own happiness of soul 
and of being. 

I am come here, I am here, just for the pur- 
pose of bringing to you what I am. I am filling 
this room with that that I am. You are breath- 
ing me into your very being. This room is 
filled with just the I AM. I come with this 
I AM to heal you of your infirmities. Think 
not, just now, please, of this man who affords 
a convenient vehicle through which I, the AM, 
come to you. Think of the great healing power 
of God. Pray, earnestly desire, to have that 
conscious awakening which will permit you to 
say, "I and my Father are one." With such a 
realization as this you will come to know me, — 
you will come to know me. 

There is a water of which if a man drink, he 
shall never thirst again. There is food, like 
heavenly manna, of which if a man partake, 
he shall never again know hunger. 

I see now the divine healing power of God 
flowing into and through your lives, reaching 
all of you excepting three. Three of you are 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 69 

in no way affected by this power. I, the I AM, 
am come that ye might have life, and have it 
more abundantly. The great power of God is 
here, striving with you, seeking you out. If 
you will but seek it with half the earnestness 
with which it seeks you, you will find it, and 
when you find it, you will know no more dis- 
ease, you will experience no more physical 
trouble, you will be born into happiness, — 
happiness, because you will be born into health. 
Those of you who seek this shall surely find 
it. You can find it here, now — now — now. 
The finding of it is coming into possession of 
that which is of greatest price, greatest bless- 
ing, greatest blessing. 

I come to you this afternoon not so much to 
speak to you; I come simply to bring to you 
that divine help. I have brought it simply 
because I have come. It is I, — that help is. It 
is you, — that help is, — you, the I AM, — my- 
Slow self, the I AM. I ask not of you anything. I 

Hght n hand come to bring you all that I can bring, and I 
durln d the bring to y ou a ^ tnat ^ can bring, simply be- 
next words, cause / come to you. I bring you myself — 
that's all, that's all. 

I have come, and very soon I am going, but 
I will come again, and to as many of you as can 



70 THE LIVING JESUS 

receive the word, it shall be unto you Health 
and Happiness and Life. 

I should like before I leave to minister per- 
sonally to three. I should like to minister to 
all, but I can minister to only three. I should 
like to have a seat placed here in front of me, 
and those to whom I am to minister will please 
sit here for a moment, the first now. 

(Then followed, as did at every meeting of 
the Spiritual Healing Circle, personal and 
general treatments, the beneficial results of 
which upon every occasion were very marked. 

The Editors.) 



March 16, 
1921. 



Gesture 
of blessing. 



SESSION 9 

The Inner Circle 

("The Great Teacher is on the way here, but 
evidently journeying with slow progress. 
Although distance may be practically anni- 
hilated in the spiritual world, we still have the 
privilege of traveling as slowly as we please. 
I know he is coming, because I see the advance 
lights, the same as you would see before the 
sun was up in the morning, the light breaking 
sufficiently to render you absolutely sure that 
it was pretty near sunrise. That person 
cannot travel without projecting the light be- 
fore him. He is here within sight, with a host 
of heavenly beings." 

John McCullough.) 

Martha and Mary, I would bring to you now 

soul comfort. I would have your soul comfort 

so thoroughly complete that not even a tremor 

of mental anxiety would disturb you. Such 

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72 THE LIVING JESUS 

complete elimination of mental worry is pos- 
Pause. s iki e w hen the soul is filled with divine light. 
J he . I know that no man was ever born into your 

Conception . . . J 

of Jesus, physical world in association with anything 
but natural law; emphatically I say, no physi- 
cal birth, unless it may be said all physical 
births are, was ever the consequence of a 
miracle. The birth of Jesus was the birth of 
a man, or that of a child who in time became 
a man. 

I do not know of any individual, or any 
personality, anywhere in this vast universe, 
who may be called God, and yet I know of God. 
The human mind measures differently the 
things of the spirit than does the soul-mind 
measure things of the spirit. It is nothing 
less than a great injustice to God to think of 
Him in terms which imply, even, that God is 
a personality, an individual being. 

increased My endeavor is, and shall be, and it always 
has been, to set the world's thought right. 
This is the only way of which I know to destroy 
error. Theology, so-called, has attempted to 
force upon human understanding the idea that 
Jesus was of miraculous conception, and the 
inference to be drawn from certain teachings 
touching upon this phase of an important 



earnest- 
ness. 



THE INNER CIRCLE 73 

subject, is that God overshadowed the Virgin 
Mary and that she became heavy with child 
without knowing any human, physically hu- 
man, man. This claim, first, is false, and in 
the interests of the highest and best in human 
development, it is fatal to believe it. It is fatal 
because, to a very large degree, it destroys 
human aspirations, such a quality and char- 
acter of aspirations as might lead to the seek- 
ing for, in fullest faith, the very best that 
possibly could be, and would be, found. 

To speak of Jesus as being the product of 
an immaculate conception, and to believe it, is 
to rob mankind of that noble and exalted 
prerogative of feeling and realizing its pos- 
sible equality in every respect with Jesus. 
This idea, furthermore, leads mankind to wor- 
ship Jesus as God, whereas Jesus is not God. 
Worship is only valuable when it is properly 
placed, and real and profitable worship is for 
God, and God alone. Furthermore, that which 
leads mankind to worship Jesus frequently 
deprives man of exercising that which would 
be, if exercised, of great value; namely, a 
thorough emulating of that character, Jesus. 
Men as a rule emulate men, but do not worship 
them. They do not worship, overmuch, God, 



74 THE LIVING JESUS 

but to emulate so noble and godlike a character 
as Jesus leads to a greater, truer, more valu- 
able worship of Deity itself. 

I am endeavoring, and feel the fullest con- 
fidence of success, to show to the world that 
Jesus was not God, and also to show to the 
world that he was a brother to all mankind; 
and, furthermore, that, endowed as he was, 
through prenatal influences and other helps, 
he was a medium., helpful to the world when he 
lived in the human form, and still of great 
assistance in every spiritual, progressive move- 
ment here in your world. Jesus can never be- 
come the help to this world's people that is 
possible until the world is made thoroughly 
aware that Jesus was a man, and a medium, 
and was not God. 

There is but one God, and that Divine Prin- 
ciple is the Father of everything created, the 
Father of intelligence as well as of matter, the 
Father of law as well as of things governed by 
that law, — both the song and the singer, both 
joy and sadness, both Heaven and earth, life 
and death. 

The best term as yet employed to designate 
Deity is a modern term, a term used as a direct 
consequence of exalted inspiration, or inspira- 



THE INNER CIRCLE 75 

tion coming to a mind here on the earth from 
a very exalted spirit. That term which I con- 
ceive to be the best of all is not God, but Uni- 
versal Intelligence. 

It will require at least two thousand years 
to eradicate from the minds of human beings 
the consequence of falsely conceived ideas 
concerning Jesus. That he was born immacu- 
lately I know, but miraculously, never. He 
was born as all others should be born, as all 
others may be born, and as all others sometime 
will be born ; and I am reminded to quote words 
from one of your modern poets, who has trav- 
eled through the Valley of Death, so-called, to 
her home over here. She said, 

"Whoever was begotten by pure love, 
And came desired and welcome into life, 
Is of immaculate conception" 

He, too, may be another Christ, a Redeemer, a 
Son of God. It was a divine and holy thought 
from, the spiritual Muse that touched her brain 
to give utterance to that wonderful truth, 
which relegated the Jesus-man to his proper 
place in the world's thought ; and yet it will be 
at least two thousand years ere the world will 
understand. That is but a little time. The 



76 THE LIVING JESUS 

world will understand, and when it under- 
stands, it will no longer worship Jesus, but 



emulate him. 
I have com 
light, and now I go. 



Usual i have come that ye might have a little more 

blessing. J 



("I sense that presence lingering here, look- 
ing upon you both, rather, upon all of you, 
and permit me to say here, he looks upon you 
with a smiling face. There are no tears. He 
does not look upon you as he turned and looked 
upon Peter once, and he will never have, in my 
humble opinion, any occasion for turning and 
looking upon you as he looked upon Peter 
shortly after the cock crew. . . . He blesses 
this household, all in it. I can see gathering 
around him the various people; now they begin 
to depart, and shortly they will be gone entirely 
from my vision. . . . 

"When the Teacher is blessing you, I am 
blessed by him, too. And I am better prepared 
for my work here, now, than I was before he 
ever came into your midst. I do not know just 
why he ever came into your midst. It is as 
yet an unsolved question. Perhaps that revela- 
tion may be made, and would be made, if you 
questioned. I only felt the vibrations of an 



THE INNER CIRCLE 77 

unusual force, liable to come in at some near 
time. I did not know what it was. 

"I have known the Teacher from the first. I 
think you have felt that you knew." 

John McCullough.) 



March 18, 
1921. 



Hand 
raised in 
greeting 
and 
blessing. 

The 
Sure 
Harvest. 



SESSION 10 
Spiritual Healing Circle 

May rest of mind and of body come to every 
individual here. 

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he 
also reap." 

Many have interpreted this saying in a way 
that failed, utterly failed, of its original mean- 
ing. These words aj*e but the declaration of 
one of the most beneficent principles of life, 
or nature. It is true, the choice is not so 
lavishly bestowed upon the reaper as upon 
the sower, but if the sower has been wise 
enough to make good choice of seed, then, 
indeed, there will be no sense of a necessity 
for making any choice in the day of reaping. 
What a wonderful provision, what marvelous 
freedom is proclaimed in these words — "What- 
soever a man soweth, that shall he also reap !" 

Does man have inhering power of choice in 
the selecting of seed? of how much of the seed 
selected he will scatter? of what kind of soil 

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he will scatter the seed upon? There does 
inhere in every man and every woman just 
this power of choosing the seed, the amount 
to be sown, the quality of the soil into which he 
will cast it, — or may. At this point and in 
this connection, dear children, mistakes occur, 
many of them. Largely these mistakes occur 
because the right set of faculties is not used in 
making the choice of seed, amount to be sown, 
the quality of the soil in which to sow it. 

The selection has been made, the selection 
of this seed, largely by the intellectual faculties 
of man. He has failed to marry up the in- 
tellectual faculties with the spiritual faculties 
of his being, or, again, through error, these 
two features of human faculties, which might 
have been unified, have become separated, di- 
vorced. The things of the spirit must be dis- 
cerned spiritually. The intellectual faculties 
of man need to be spiritualized. The need 
to-day is great. The spiritual faculties of man 
require the help of the intellectual faculties. 

These features of human life are not for- 
eign one to the other. They are brothers. 
They are sisters. They are loving companions, 
and would always work together as such if 
permitted to do so. The intellect is ice; it is 



80 THE LIVING JESUS 

cold; not naturally ice, not naturally cold, but 
it is cold, it is ice, simply because for so long 
a time it has traveled all by itself and has failed 
of that blessing, that warming, cheering bless- 
ing which companionship with the spiritual 
nature and faculties of man would otherwise 
have given to it. These two, the spiritual and 
the intellectual, are coming together now. 
This is the era for their marriage, their holy 
union. There is in the invisibles, that is, the 
invisible potencies, an urge in this direction, 
an urge such as has never before characterized 
a period of time, an era of life. A new im- 
pulse is seizing upon the spiritual faculties of 
mankind now, just now. A different trend 
marks the course of man's purely intellectual 
faculties now from that of the past. 

"Thy kingdom come, and Thy will be done 
on earth as it is in Heaven. ,, These are not 
mere meaningless words, nor are they a part 
of the prayer that shall go forever unanswered. 
When the right implements are used by man 
in selecting the seed, he will invariably choose 
the correct seed, and will be led to strew it 
lavishly about on well-fertilized soil. Then 
the reaping will be a pleasure, and the harvest 
will be bountiful in health, in happiness, and 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 81 

in all goodness, and the kingdom of harmony 
will be born into the midst of mankind, and 
mankind will have found its Heaven here upon 
earth. 

"Thy kingdom come, and Thy will be done 
upon earth as it is in Heaven. ,, 

Your deepest will, your truest will, is God's 
will. And down in this deep true self of your 
being, you will to do the will of the Father. 

On the surface of this river of human life 
floats many a piece of driftwood, — false, un- 
real, valueless; but do not fear, ye children of 
men. This river of life is moving with suffi- 
cient energy not only in its flowing onward, 
but in its upheaving processes, to purify itself 
of all dross by throwing it up, heaving it up, 
from the bottom of the current to the surface; 
and then the stream is carrying on this drift- 
wood of waste, on, on, and out, and out of any 
realm where it is possible for it longer to in- 
fluence or affect the tranquillity, the peace, the 
happiness of human life. 

This old earth of yours shall bloom and 
blossom, as the rose everywhere yet. God the 
Father wills it so, and His will is absolute, 
His will is final. God said, "Let there be 
light," and there was light ; and every day God 



82 THE LIVING JESUS 

says over again, "Let there be more light," 
and there is more light. And the days will 
come, and the days will go,, and God will keep 
commanding more light, more light, more 
light; and more light will come in answer to 
that command. This will go on until indeed all 
people shall recognize that God is the light of 
the world. Let not your hearts be troubled. 
Ye believe in God, believe also in this light. 
Pause. Believe in the power of this light. 

The light is coming to you now, children of 
men. It is permeating your entirety of being. 
You are better men and better women than 
you were this morning. You will be better 
men and better women to-morrow morning 
than you are now. God wills it so. Your deep 
interior God-self wills it so, and you are often 
unconsciously and sometimes consciously a 
co-operator with the great Will, the Will of 
God. 

To-day, in coming to you, I come here not 
particularly to attempt even to benefit any 
of you by what I say, but, I repeat, — what I 
have said before, — I come to bring you help, 
not words. I come to bring you myself, and 
myself I bring. This room is filled now with 
God's presence. His great healing blessings 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 83 

are here, filling every interstice of this room. 
You will be blessed as you breathe it in,, — every 
one of you will be blessed. 

So I have come and have said a few words. 
I have brought myself and all that I am, just 
to bless you,, and after I have endeavored to 
help two or three personally, I will go, but I 
will come again. 

I will heal two. Whoever desires to do so, 
may sit in the chair in front of me. I will 
heal you. 



March 23, 
1921. 



The 
blessing. 



Great 
earnest- 
ness shown 
in move- 
ment of 
head; 
uplifted 
face. 

Earnest- 
ness; much 
emphasis. 



SESSION 11 

The Inner Circle 

("The light! I see the oncoming light. I 
wish that you two people could see it. The 
Aurora Borealis, streaming across the heav- 
ens, is nothing, even in its magnificence, its 
greatest magnificence, to this light, — nothing. 
. . . I am going now; the other is coming." 

John McCullough.) 

Hail, Martha and Mary, all hail! May 
peace's own benediction come to you both, and 
to this house. 

It has been said, "Let your communications 
be Yea, Yea, and Nay, Nay, for whatever is 
more than these is of evil." 

When all has been said, whatever view men 
may take of it, truth needs no confirmation. 
Time is all that is necessary for truth to confirm 
itself. Truth needs no witness, no contem- 
porary individual, to write or speak, after its 

first utterance. 

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THE INNER CIRCLE 85 

Prophec ^ am now s P ea king to millions, I know it; 

and more than this I know — it will be many 
years before the truth of what I have to say 
will be accepted as such; but I ask for no 
confirmation from any source, save only that 
source which the God power, working in this 
world of yours,, will give to it in time. My 
utterances, simply because they are the utter- 
ances of what I know to be the truth, will for 
a time be as a sword instead of a scepter of 
peace ; but afterwards, when the sword has ac- 
complished its work, a scepter of peace will 
come out of these words, or, rather, that for 
which they stand. 

The Father Previous to this evening I have referred to 
the prenatal life of Jesus, and at that time left 
unsaid that which I propose to say to-night. 
Joseph married Mary, the mother of Jesus. 
Joseph was the father of Jesus, — the father 
in the same and identical sense as is any man 
the progenitor of his own child. Nothing 
miraculous whatsoever attaches itself to the 
birth of Jesus, although there was something 
unusual connected with it, and that has been 
already referred to as being "immaculate." 
The priesthood at the time of Jesus' birth 



86 THE LIVING JESUS 

was not like unto the established priesthood of 
the present time, but, rather, this priesthood 
of Jesus' babyhood days consisted of men from 
all walks of life, who, for the love of the serv- 
ice, took as it were turns serving at the altar 
and in other ways common to the custom of 
that time. 

I have referred before, in these words I have 
been giving forth, to just how the conception 
of this child came about, and in referring to it, 
mentioned the fact of the father's being a 
priest. Joseph was a priest from time to time, 
and a laborer from time to time, engaging 
himself very largely in the occupation of a 
Emotion, builder, a carpenter. He was a pure man. His 
thoughts were pure, until after he had come to 
know Mary. For some months after that, 
while it cannot be said that his thoughts were 
impure, it may be said that he was very much 
troubled for fear that his thoughts had not 
been pure and that his conduct stood con- 
demned before God. As the babe was born a 
medium, so was the father also a medium, un- 
usually gifted as such; and Joseph's whole life 
was very much disturbed until — that is, dis- 
turbed as to whether his conduct had been cor- 
rect or not — until he, Joseph, the medium, 



The 

Nature 



THE INNER CIRCLE 87 

blessed with the power of clairaudience, as it 
is called to-day, heard a voice speaking to him 
from the invisible world, assuring him that all, 
after all, was pure, and that he was to acknowl- 
edge Mary as his wife. Not only was he a 
medium, not only was the boy Jesus a medium, 
but the boy's mother, Mary, was exceptionally 
gifted with the power of seeing people dwelling 
in the spiritual world, and also of hearing them 
speaking to her; and thousands of messages 
which she received from time to time she con- 
veyed to the priesthood of the Temple, much 
to their gratification and soul upliftment. 



However wisely one may discuss, in an at- 
of Mind, tempt to differentiate between soul and mind, 
one will be unable to set forth with any degree 
of clearness and understanding just what that 
difference, if there be any, is. There is a 
difference, but the purely human mind is 
scarcely capable of discerning it. The soul 
abideth forever, — abideth forever as a con- 
scious entity, being. Mind, of a quality, also 
abideth forever. That peculiar quality of mind 
to which I refer, and which I cannot define to 
your understanding, directs soul. The soul 
admits of no duality of being. It is one. The 



88 THE LIVING JESUS 

mind is two. The m,}nd that you know is one. 
The mind that directs the soul's conduct is the 
other, the one you do not know, and yet it is 
ever with you. It is you, or one of the parts 
of you. It is independent of the soul, and yet 
the soul cannot do without it. Without the 
soul this superior mind could mean nothing to 
any one. 

It is not the mind that you know, which gives 
a seemingly supernatural strength to the 
physical body upon certain occasions and un- 
der certain trying conditions. All mankind 
has observed the effect of mind upon physical 
strength. That curse which ignorance has 
brought to bear in human life so prevalently, 
fear, is a part of that mind with which you 
are familiar, are acquainted; and when that 
state of mind prevails, fear is born, and fear 
affects the physical organism's strength not 
helpfully, but only to weaken it. Courage is 
a state of mind, — that mind of which you 
know, — and that state of mind gives strength 
to the physical body. Will is an expression 
only of that mind with which you have an ac- 
quaintance. 

There is a muscle in the arm, or muscles,, 
which may be used under the dominancy of the 



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89 



Right arm 

stretched 

downward, 

with fist 

clenched 

as if a 

weight 

were 

grasped. 



right mind state, — of the mind of which you 
know, — which could be made to hold up a very 
heavy weight, a weight so heavy that^ if that 
mind were removed from the physical body 
and the physical body became, as it is com- 
monly termed, "dead," and the same weight 
were attached to the dead arm,, it would sever 
its connections; in other words, the muscles 
dead would not hold the weight that the mus- 
cles alive, and under the direction of that mind, 
easily held up. 

Now, there is a mind which works in a way 
analogous to the way the mind with which 
you have an acquaintance works, a mind that 
has nothing to do with directing this physical 
organism, but has to do with directing the soul, 
or true self. That mind is superior, very much 
superior, to this mind with which you are ac- 
quainted, — superior in every sense; and its 
effect as a director of the soul's course renders 
the soul at once the embodiment of God posi- 
tiveness. The soul cannot know that state of 
mind called fear; it cannot know that state of 
mind called courage. It knows, and knows 
itself; in knowing itself, it is acquainted with 
all of its powers, and knows again that these 
powers are all God powers. God powers have 



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THE LIVING JESUS 



Smilingly. 



Great 
earnest- 
ness. 

Uplifted 

face, 

smilingly. 



Pause; 
relaxation. 



Great 

tenderness 
and 

earnest- 
ness. 



no limitations. God powers see without limita- 
tion, hear without limitation, feel without lim- 
itation, live in the sense of all that is, without 
limitation. 

This will suggest to you what you really are 
as a composite being of soul and mind, and 
mind, — one mind to be lopped off as a limb 
from a tree, the other mind co-equal with the 
soul, a part of the real tree forever and forever 
and forevermore. To it there is no time, no 
time, no space, no limitation. It goes every- 
where, and yet goes nowhere, for nowhere 
with the soul is everywhere, and everywhere is 
nowhere. Were it otherwise than this,, under- 
standing in Heaven would be limited to the 
crude measuring-sticks and balances conse- 
quent upon human ingenuity, created for hu- 
man needs. 

In saying what I have, rest assured, Dear 
World, I have no ill-feeling toward any, only 
love; but I love the brotherhood of mankind 
so dearly that I am ready and willing to hurt 
this great, lovely brotherhood by destroying its 
idols. 



I now go away, and yet I do not go away. I 
leave you, and yet I do not leave you. I cannot 



THE INNER CIRCLE 91 

come here and altogether ever get away from 
here; yet I may speak in a mystery when I 
say again, I am now going away, but I will 
return shortly with other messages. 

Be my good mediums,, still be my good me- 
diums. Stay with me in love and patience. I 
have much more to say. 



SESSION 12 

March 25, 

x 9 21 - Spiritual Healing Circle 

Power h " St ^ ay P eace c ° m e to you all. 

One did say, "Come unto me, all ye that 
the Great labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you 

Teacher r pcr " 
had come, ICbU 

in silence This was not an invitation extended to the 

stretched people of the world to come and bow down 

hand to- before a human individual. It was an invita- 

ward the f-ion to the world that was, and to all people of 

people, as , 

if inviting the world of all time, to come and partake of 
come t0 that Christ power which inhered in the teacher 

He lifted w ^° sa ^> "Come unto me." 
up his face. When the Teacher of Judea came down 
prayerfancT f rom the mountain, he heard the cry of the 
ent a iookj r ~ P e opk. His ears did not hear so much as his 
as if a light SO ul heard of this cry of the people. There 

were shin- 

ing through met him by the way one whose blood had be- 
notTced. en come poisoned with the disease of leprosy, who 
silence cl "ied out for healing. The great teacher used 
after a that power within him, that God power, that 

two he < Christ power, and brought it all into the force 

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SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 93 

stretched f a few words. Those few words went out 
right hand to the one afflicted with leprosy, and of his 
people, and leprosy he was cleansed. 

trembling ^ was n °t ^ e teacher who healed that man. 
apparently The Teacher was the physician, and he used the 
earnestness healing remedy of the Christ force. The force 
desire to would not have found lodgment in the mind 
heathen!. an( j t h e body of the leper had it not been for 
rested upon the power of the word, "I will. Be thou 

the table. , „ 

After a clean. 

extended This same teacher is spoken of as having 
his hand spent a certain period of time with the pris- 
two fingers oners, the prisoners outside of the human 
bfessing, m form, ministering unto them. He did do this 
lifting his ministering. His was the privilege of going 
the people's to them,, his the privilege of carrying to them 
letting^? help. That which prompted him was only the 
de°scend. Christ principle. That Christ power and 
Great principle is here this afternoon. The physi- 

earnest- .... , . - ~ 

ness cian is also here this afternoon. Come unto 

theTaik? 11 * this remedy, all ye who are weary and are 

P ?thhead heavy-laden, and you shall find rest to your 

bowed, souls and bodies. You are in prison, your 

words, "Be souls, some of you. The soul is crying out for 
St?ong ean " its freedom. It is not wise or well that the 

emphasis soul's cry should continue, crying for freedom, 

upon the . J 1 

words, since you can answer that cry, — and you can 



94 THE LIVING JESUS 

d?thfs d answer it. The Christ is visiting you, — you, 
ministering." the real you, in prison. Whoever is sick is in 
the prison of sin, for sin and sickness are one 
and the same. Whoever is in sorrow is in 
prison. Whoever is in any trouble is in prison. 
To all who are in trouble of any kind, or held 
by sorrow, the Christ comes, to deliver such 
from their imprisonment. 

"I, if I go away, will come again." "I will 
send to you the Holy Comforter.," — the Christ 
revealed. Christ lives in you, Christ lives in 
you. Christ lived in Jesus, and Jesus knew it. 
Christ lives in you, and do you know it? If 
you do not know it, again you are in the sin 
and under the dominion of the sin of igno- 
rance. I come here at this time to make en- 
deavor to lift you out of prison, to set you free. 
I tell you of this, and yet the telling is not the 
power. The power is in that which comes with 
me. It may be invisible to your eyes, but it 
may be felt by you, and by most of you is being 
felt. For your place of gathering here is filled 
with this power which we have brought to you. 
I would have you realize with me, — you, I, and 
the Father are one. The word may be spoken 
with power, but unfelt this power by all who 
fail to open themselves to it. Blessed are ye, 



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95 



Gesture 
of arm 
extended 
widely. 



if ye, having ears, hear ; having eyes, see. But 
there are those who as yet have eyes with 
which to see, yet see nothing; and ears with 
which to hear, and hear nothing. 

It is the Presence, the Presence, that heals 
you, that helps you. It is not the word alone. 
It is the Presence. The Presence I speak of 
is not the presence alone of an individual. It 
is the Presence of Spirit,- — not a spirit, but 
Spirit. It fills this entire space, and more. It 
is here. It is here for every one of you. Be- 
hold I stand at the door and knock. If any 
man hear me, and rise and open the door, I 
will come in and sup with him. 

I will now heal two or three. 



March 30, 
1921. 



Hand % 
raised in 
the usual 
blessing. 

Soul 
Evolution. 



Earnest- 
ness. 



SESSION 13 

The Inner Circle 

("I see the advancing lights, the oncoming 
lights. I know what they mean now, I know 
what they mean." 

John McCullough.) 

Peace be unto you all. 

Only the absolutely good survives. Angels 
are not merely converted devils. Good is never 
the product of evil. You may mould evil in 
any way it is possible to mould it or effect a 
change in its appearance; you can never make 
of evil good. Lead, the metal, is lead, and 
not all the manipulating, refining, possible to 
give to lead could ever make lead into gold. 

The holy of life are not the product of un- 

holiness. You may have holiness which is not 

the perfect, for you have the perfect only when 

you have the whole, and holiness is but a part 

of the whole. The sinner cannot be converted 

into the saint. If one who sins ever becomes 

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THE INNER CIRCLE 97 

a saint, — as one who sins will become a saint, 
— it is not by the conversion of the sinner into 
sainthood, but it is because the saint, who 
always was, comes out from under the domi- 
nancy of sin, leaving sin behind. Sin can never 
be left behind through the process known 
as conversion. Sin can be eliminated only 
through the process of growing, for sin is 
simply ignorance, and one cannot be converted 
into knowledge and wisdom from ignorance, 
but one can become wise and possessed of 
knowledge by endeavor, earnest endeavor, to 
attain unto wisdom and unto knowledge, which 
means the slipping off from one of the bondage 
and the hindrances of all that it is in any way 
possible to interpret as ignorance, which is 
another term for sin. You cannot make gold 
out of lead, but you have never seen pure gold 
yet, you know. Gold has never been refined 
as yet to the very last possible point of its 
Pause. refinement. 

The soul of mankind is no more or less, 
simply because it is at any given time under 
the bondage and sway of ignorance. The 
apple upon the tree is no more or less an apple 
simply because it is unripe. You cannot con- 
vert a green apple into a ripe apple, although 



98 THE LIVING JESUS 

the elements are all there within the green 
apple, used to make up the ripe one. And yet 
the elements are not all there in the green 
apple; but through the law of attraction, the 
green apple and the elements within it draw 
to it the outer and natural elements to make 
of it a ripe,, perfected apple. The prophet can 
see the ripe apple in the apple blossom; yet 
sunshine and air and all the chemical elements 
which make up the sap of the tree, flowing 
into the embryonic expression of the little tiny 
speck, are all that are necessary, properly ap- 
plied, constantly applied, to throw off the 
beautiful apple-blossom petals, to unfold the 
little speck gradually, to cast off its sin, its 
ignorance, its greenness, simply by virtue of 
the enforcing into it of the quality of ripeness. 
There is in the atmosphere, there is in the sap, 
and the chemical elements which make that sap 
what it is to the apple, the ripe apple itself ; and 
as it flows into the embryonic expression, and 
continues flowing in there, the greenness is 
thrown off by the mere introduction of the 
ripeness. 

So with the human being, so with the human 
being. Unless a religious revival has the effect 
of leading an individual to the determination 



THE INNER CIRCLE 99 

to coincide with the laws of the ripening of 
human life, the revival is of no value what- 
soever to human beings. You cannot revive 
religion in a man unless religion is in the man 
to be revived. Religion is in the man, always 
in the man, waiting for the divine sap, as it 
were, to give of its ripening power that which 
will produce the effect ultimately of the ripened 
man, the true man. Truth is not born of 
error, ripeness not of greenness; but truth is 
the opposite of error, and ripeness the opposite 
of greenness and immaturity. One leaves the 
other. In the ripeness of the fruit the green 
fruit is left behind. It is lost sight of in the 
ripening process, and ultimately in the ripeness. 
Error is lost sight of, is left far behind, so far 
that no one can see it when the perfect man is 
Long established. 

pause. 

Marriage. It has been said that marriage is an institu- 
tion ordained by Almighty God, and so true 
marriage is ordained by Almighty God. It is 
natural, it is Nature expressing itself. In the 
world of human beings it is natural to marry, 
and because it is natural to marry, it is, of 
course, a part of Nature. Nature and Nature's 
laws are all-comprehensive. Nature and Na- 



ioo THE LIVING JESUS 

ture's laws are not confined for their expres- 
sion or operation to the purely human or 
physical sphere of life. Nature is universal, 
and since Nature is expressed in marriage, and 
since Nature demands marriage among human 
beings, because it is a universal law, applicable 
to all time, all places, marriage is an institution 
recognized as important and necessary among 
the denizens of the spiritual world, as well as, 
and for the same reason that, it is recognized 
as a need in purely human society and its re- 
lations. 

It has been said that "it is not well for man 
to live alone/' That is a sentence, and it need 
not ever have been used. Mankind knows that 
it is not well to live alone. Sex obtains, exists, 
in the spiritual world, and all up through the 
spheres where life exists in the world of 
spirits. People marry in the world of spirits. 
The institution of marriage, so far as it is 
related to human life, has to do with certain 
aspects important in character with which 
marriage in the spiritual world has nothing 
whatever to do. 

In the very nature of things, Infinite Wis- 
dom knew that in the green age, the human 



THE INNER CIRCLE 101 

age,, of human beings, the institution of mar- 
riage would not be very well understood, but 
it was known that this relationship known as 
marriage would be desired. This was instilled 
into, it was born in, the very fibre of human 
life. Souls must have opportunity for ex- 
pression in order to obtain experience, and 
children must be born, and, therefore, one of 
the objects in connection with marriage among 
human beings is that of propagation, or the 
propagating of human beings. 

Marriage in the spiritual world eliminates 
this idea altogether. All that sex can pos- 
sibly mean, void of propagation, is intensely 
realized in the spiritual world sooner or later 
by all spirits. Every man, every woman, has 
a counterpart or companion somewhere, and 
neither man nor woman is complete until these 
counterparts become one part; and when the 
union of these two souls, designed to come to- 
gether at the very beginning, is perfected, 
when these souls have come together, you have 
your angel. Your angel is always two, and 
yet only one. 

The sacredness of marriage is not overwell 
recognized by the great majority of human 



102 THE LIVING JESUS 

beings,, for the reason that the great majority 
fails to understand its true and real signifi- 
cance. It means to millions, and has meant to 
millions, nothing sacred; but in the unfold- 
ment of the spiritual part of mankind there 
will come to man a recognition of the sacred- 
ness of marriage, and then there will be fewer 
Great children born from marital unions, but better 
ness. eS ones, for the reason that the parents will give 
a far better opportunity to the soul that enters 
into the child to express itself soulfully. They 
will not cover up this soul with a confusion of 
passion and ignorance, with which it will have 
to fight for years before its ultimate mastery. 
Yet all is working well, all is working well. 

It is said that "in Heaven they neither 
marry nor are given in marriage." They are 
not given in marriage, neither do they marry 
just as you people of the earth, or human 
sphere, marry ; but they marry by and through 
a conformity to the law of natural attractions. 
Man does not seek out woman to pay courtship 
to her with the hope of marrying ; neither does 
woman live in the hope that she will find a 
companion sometime; but, with her birth into 
the spirit world and with the man's birth into 
the spirit world, both come to know that they 



THE INNER CIRCLE 103 

have marriage awaiting them; and they know 
more than this, and that which is better to 
know, namely, that when they marry they will 
make no mistake, for it will be the union of 
two souls designed for each other from the 
very beginning, and in that marriage, in the 
consummation of that marriage, each will 
realize angelhood. 

Written {Put up your pencils now. 

memory, / do not thank you, Mary and Martha, but 
hand note's, the world will thank you for what you are 
doing here. It is not mine to give thanks to 
any, or to accept the thanks of any. It is my 
privilege, — as it is yours, — so to bestow that 
I may create cause for thankfulness on the 
part of human beings. Then their joy in that 
which has so changed conditions for them that 
they are naturally deeply thankful, is the re- 
turn I receive. 

I give as God gives — only for the purpose 
of making human beings happier and better. 
Just as God sends the rain upon earth, making 
the vegetation to flourish and causing the 
flowers to spring up, and thus arousing great 
joy and thankfulness in the hearts of His 
people, so do I give this my message to the 



104 THE LIVING JESUS 

world, that out of the benefits that will come 
from the acceptance of that message, human 
beings may receive greater cause for joy and 
thankfulness. ) 



April i, 
1921. 

The Light 
of the 
World. 

Gesture of 
blessing:. 

Great 
earnest- 
ness. 



Much 
emphasis. 



SESSION 14 
Spiritual Healing Circle 

Healing is now coming to all of you. 

As many as are led by the spirit of God, 
become the sons and the daughters of God. 

The God power is always a light. It is a 
light upon the path. If that light is followed 
by any man, he need not stumble. The path 
leads on, and on, to God, for God is the light 
ever shining upon that path. If any man fol- 
lows this light, he never need walk in darkness. 

God, this light, lives in you, and, therefore, 
ye are the light of the world. The light of 
God is in you. If a man's eye is single,, then 
is his whole body full of light. If your pur- 
pose, your eye, is single, and you are led by 
the Spirit, then indeed you are helping to dis- 
pel all darkness from the world. Darkness 
is not converted or changed into light — never. 
The light shineth in darkness, but darkness 
comprehendeth it not. I am the light of the 

world. It is for you as individuals — this 

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106 THE LIVING JESUS 

privilege is — to say daily and hourly, "I am 
the light of the world." 

Darkness can have no ultimate victory over 
light. Sickness need have no victory over 
health. Health is affirmative, a force, a vital 
power. Sickness is negative. It is without 
force. It is not power, and, therefore, has no 
power. It is weakness, and the results of it are 
always found in weakness. The Infinite Soul, 
God, is health. This radiant center of all 
force is happiness. It is all that is good, and 
its radiating power is yet to accomplish this — 
the complete and absolute elimination of all 
that is not good. 

Health is knocking at your door. It seeks 
an entrance. There is enough within you left 
to rise, even amid the clutter and confusion 
of your illness, and open the door. Though on 
your way toward the door you may stumble 
and fall over the wreckage of your own illness, 
there is, I repeat, enough within you to help 
you to find the door and open it. Behold, I 
stand at the door and knock. If any man hear 
me, and will rise and open the door, I will 
come in. This is the language of Health, and 
as it now, now, now is knocking at the door of 
your being, seeking entrance, rouse your- 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 107 

Hand selves ! Open the door ! I will pour out upon 

^ Xt blessinff ^ ou a blessing. I W1 ^- P our ^° Y on a blessing. 
' This is the language of Health. I seek, I 
constantly seek, entrance to your life. I am 
Strength. Let me in, and I will drive out all 
your weaknesses. I am Hearing. Let me in, 
and I will remove, as far as the east is from 
the west, your deafness. I am Sight. Let me 
in, and I will cause the scales to fall from your 
eyes and you shall see. I am Mental Balance. 
Let me in. I am knocking. Let me in, and 
I will remove from you your waywardness, and 
your lack of power of mental application, 
through the great God power of life. 

I am knocking. If any feel infirm and tired 
and weak, — remember, I am Strength, I am 
Light, I am Vigor. Let me in, and I will re- 
move your tired feelings. If any are in sor- 
row, — remember, I am Joy. Let me in. Sor- 
row will not live in there with me. We are not 
companions. All I ask is, — Let me in, and 
prove me. 

This is the language of the Divine Health, 

as it stands now, to-day, knocking — knocking 

Gesture of — knocking. As many as receive this truth 

Sfpresent. shall become well, shall become blest with 

hearing — sight — strength — mental equili- 



108 THE LIVING JESUS 

brium. The spiritual forces stand by you and 
earnest- Wl ^ you * They stand now, with outstretched 
ness. arms and open hands, to be grasped and to 

grasp; to be taken hold of, and to take hold of. 
Reach out your hand and take this hand ex- 
tended to you. It is extended to you now. 
Take hold of it, and the vitality of God, flow- 
ing through it, will flow into you and bless you 
with confidence in yourself, for you will recog- 
nize that you have that which knows no weak- 
ness, to lean upon, a staff eternally strong, 
eternally strong. 

/ am this — an approaching friend, the Spirit, 
Spirit Forces. I am the very essence of heal- 
ing. I come, and if within you there is any 
hatred, let me in. I will drive out all hatred, 
and all hatred is poison to human life. If any 
lack disposition to do the Father's work, and 
thus build up His kingdom upon earth, let me 
in. I am of the builders, — the builders of God. 
I will come in, — if you will rise and open the 
door, — and help you to build, guide you in your 
building, that the result may be one of perma- 
nence. I will help you to build your own 
mansion of time, and your mansion in Heaven. 
Very great This is the language of Love. Behold, this 
ness. eS " Trinity now stands at the door and knocks. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 109 

Children, my children, as you look around you 
and see the many hindrances to opening the 
door, let none of them discourage you. Sum- 
mon to you Divine Strength, that you may 
make this one mighty effort and open the door, 
and, opening it, swing it wide open, — wide 
open, that the light of Heaven may shine in. 

I have come to you again, and will come to 
you again. I have come to bless you with 
health and true understanding. I have a pur- 
pose to come again, and my mission in coming 
again will be like unto that which has been, 
always been, my mission, — to help you, to help 
you. 

Just over your heads the Infinite Love, God, 
has placed an unusual light power, and it is 
streaming down through the darkness and 
into the darkness of your being. Arouse your- 
selves,, O human ones! Step out from the 
darkness, so far as you can, for the darkness 
of your own being renders it impossible for 
you to comprehend this light. The light shin- 
eth in darkness, and the darkness compre- 
hended it not, but wherever the Light shines 
into where there is light, it blesses the light, 
and the light comprehends it. Co-operation 
between the light that is within you, and the 



no THE LIVING JESUS 

Light of God, is at once set into operancy. 
This wholeness of Light becomes then your 
light. This wholeness of Help becomes then 
your help. According to your faith in the 
power of God to heal you, be it unto you. 

You will bow your heads, and I will minister 
to you healing forces. 

He stood 
with arms 

upraised My Father, and the Father of all these chil- 

over the J ' 

people, dren, we are one with Thee in fact. Make us 
praye . a ^ g e ^ er one w ifa Thee in consciousness. As 
we wait here now, we ask for the confidence 
of all these people in Thee and Thy divine love 
and willingness to heal them, — every one, and 
in every part. May that divine Christ power 
come here now into each and every one. 



April 6, 
1921. 



Out- 
stretched 
hand, and 
blessing. 
Long 
pause. 

E. P. W. 
said, "Two 
or three 
have said 
that they 
are sure 
you are the 
Master. 
Some have 
said that 
they think 
so. 

Long 
pause, 
with an 
affirmative 
nod of the 
head, as if 
satisfied 
with the 
answer. 

Divine 

Justice 

versus 

Vicarious 

Atonement. 



SESSION 15 
The Inner Circle 

The blessing- of my peace I bring to you all, 
— the blessing of my peace. 

You have heard perhaps something, and 
who do people tell you that I am ? Some must 
have spoken to you. 

Whatever else the Master may have em- 
bodied in teaching and practice, certainly jus- 
tice has not been ignored or neglected. In the 
teachings which have been false and yet have 
endeavored to make true, or seemingly so, a 
pernicious idea has been more or less, — more 
rather than less, — accepted as true, not as a 
result of overdeep thinking or close analysis 
upon the part of the people accepting it. I 
refer to vicarious atonement. 

There is no justice possible in that for which 

vicarious atonement stands. It is the outbirth 

of early, purely human institutions. Even in 

China to-day vicarious atonement is quite fre- 

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ii2 THE LIVING JESUS 

quently practised, in a way, but almost any 
one who is not a Chinese condemns in this 
practice upon the part of Chinamen that which 
they honor theoretically as a part of the prac- 
tice of God Almighty, the Father of us all. 

In the first place, atonement is not de- 
manded of any one by Infinite Wisdom, Infi- 
nite Intelligence. Your good deed, as a good 
deed, is no more important than is your bad 
deed, as a deed, important. You do not have 
to atone to Deity, our Father, for the bad deed. 
The bad deed has no effect whatsoever upon 
the great All-Father pulsebeat of life; neither 
does the good deed,, as a deed, affect the tran- 
quillity, peace, or, if we may say, mind of the 
All-loving Father. The Father is the Creator, 
— not only the Creator of human beings, so- 
called, but the Creator of the law by which 
human beings are created. The All-wise and 
Loving Father knows from the very beginning 
the whole line and process of human travel, 
knows of the experiences through which hu- 
man beings must pass, and that in the passing 
every step is a step directly toward the All- 
loving Father principle. Inasmuch as it is by 
law that man arrives at a state of release from 
the bondage of error, and not even through 



THE INNER CIRCLE 113 

personal atonement, it at once becomes self- 
evident, or may, to the man or woman who 
thinks, that vicarious atonement is a fallacy. 

I do not mean to be understood as declaring 
that there is no difference between a good deed 
and a bad act. I mean merely to convey the 
idea, which is true, that the good deed, or the 
act of injustice in any form,, has no effect in 
the sense of pleasing or displeasing the Deific 
Principle. The law was inaugurated by this 
Principle at and from the very beginning. It 
is by this law that man finds his estate of per- 
fection. Atonement, or vicarious atonement, 
is not in harmony with this law. It is in op- 
position to the divine law. Read: "Whatso- 
ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." 
That is law, and all atonement, either personal 
or vicarious, can have no effect, absolutely no 
effect, in changing that aspect of divine law,, 
as set forth in "Whatsoever a man soweth, 
that shall he also reap." Being divine law, it 
is the law of the All-loving Father. It cannot 
be broken — this law cannot. Experience ulti- 
mately teaches this to all mankind. 

No matter what may have been taught con- 
cerning vicarious atonement as associated 
with the Man of Nazareth, as paying the debt 



ii4 THE LIVING JESUS 

owed to the All-loving Father by another, 
there is in that claim no truth. It is not true, 
for the simple reason that it is and must be 
false, just because of the law. Helpfulness to 
one upon the part of another is not vicarious 
atonement. The only atonement the world's 
people should consider seriously is that legiti- 
wfth^ght mate, God-ordained atonement which comes 
h nded until out * nto ^°^ rene f when atonement is split 
the word twice and is written at-one-ment with God. 
That is the only atonement, and that at-one- 
ment is won by the man and the woman who 
live the life in harmony with the law, the divine 
Turning law > tne divine law. 

to E. P. W. 
(Written) 

from (i am going to ask a favor of you, — one 

noTshort- which I asked once before, but of a totally 
hand notes, different kind of woman, one whom the world 
Teacher held to be bad, who is now in Heaven here, but 
discontinue L knowing her, knezv her to be good, although 
During the f or ^ ler indiscretions she was regarded as bad, 

absence of — W M y u give me a drink of water? 
E. P. W., J u J 

E.B.O. 

aU ld of"uI e Blessed are they who FEEL the truth, for 
here feel un f suc fo ffo e power of God is easily imparted. 

that we r 

know that 

Master." e Unto you, and all of you. 



E. P. W. 
returned 



THE INNER CIRCLE 115 

fepHecP' ^ ta ^ e ^i s from you, not for myself, but for 
"impart it this man; and after he drinks it, in the course 
all of us of time he will drink again; but sometime I 
will have filled up your cup with a different 
water, and when you have taken it and drunk 
with the of it, you will never thirst any more. ) 

glass of 
water. 

Gesture of Your Father and My Father, the Father of 
blessing to all, is not only the Father of Love, but is Love. 
to the Your Father and My Father, and the Father 

S e d d th?A of all > is Infinite - Bein S love, that love is 
gesture infinite. Infinite Love leaves nothing - ,, leaves 
that he was nobody, out. Infinite Love takes to its arms 
resume°the as readily the sinner as the saint. Infinite 
talk, but Love knows no difference between saint and 

with a new 

subject. sinner. Infinite Love knows of a difference, 
infinite however, between right and wrong, and it is 
Love. evermore urging all life from error to right- 
Yearning eousness, from wrong to right, from sin to 

tenderness ttt- • r 1 • x /• • 

of tones holiness. Were it not for this Infinite Love 
words! and its urge, the sinner would always remain 
Love mte a smner > an d then all, of course, would be sin- 
knows no ners, and there would be no saints. While 

difference . ,. 

between saints are made out of sinners, samtlmess 
sfnner" d bears no relation to sinfulness. 

It has been a grievous mistake to teach that 
the All-loving Father has any choice, or even 



n6 THE LIVING JESUS 

any disposition to choose from among these 
children. They are all His children, co-equal 
with one another, and equally the object of 
His tenderest care. Good does not sympathize 
with its opposite. Good, God, does not sympa- 
thize with bad,, but good leads out from the 
midst of the bad, redeems, makes perfect in 
expression all that enters in to make up a man 
or a woman, makes perfect in expression that 
which is already perfect, but lacks perfect ex- 
pression ; as the mill forces the wind upon the 
wheat, not to cool, to warm, or to make it in 
any sense different, but simply to blow away 
the chaff,, so that the wheat may express itself 
wheat. It was always wheat, but the chaff 
prevented it from expressing itself fully as 
wheat. 

Humanity to-day is not so near to that 
beautiful civilization where neighbor loves 
neighbor as himself, because God has not been 
always and upon every occasion set before 
the world as Infinite Love. The sad and 
sorry interpretation given to God's love is 
to-day too well understood by you to require or 
need any comment; and so long as human 
beings permit themselves to believe that God 
is anything else than infinite in love, they will 



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117 



Great 
earnest- 
ness. 



Smilingly, 

and with 

upturned 

face. 

Pause. 

Sudden 

extension 

of hand 

toward 

E. P. W. 

and 

E. B. O. 

A 
Prophecy. 



remain in a state of semibarbarism. To be- 
lieve and know that God's love is infinite, and 
to have an understanding of the meaning of 
Infinite Love, has a tendency at least to render 
all human minds and all human beings akin, 
akin. So long as Deity is conceived of as part 
love and part hate, human beings will love one 
another a little and hate one another much. 
And the hatred of the world ruins its oppor- 
tunity for entrance into the highest and best in 
civilization. 

I declare in all earnestness, an earnestness 
deeper than these words of mine may seem- 
ingly convey, I declare, I affirm, my God, who 
is your God, and the God of all, is Love, and 
that God is Infinite, and Infinite and Infinite 
in His love. And because of that the universe 
is safe. 

Martha and Mary, it is my desire to destroy 
error by magnifying truth, and I am touching 
upon these matters to draw the world's atten- 
tion to the truth, knowing as I do so, that for 
a time thousands,, and perhaps millions, will 
be led to commit further error by disputing the 
truth of which I am here giving utterance. 



n8 



THE LIVING JESUS 



Upturned 
face at 
word 
"know." 



Upward 
gesture on 
the words, 
"Truth is." 



But what matters it ? What matters it, since I 
know that truth ultimately sits upon the throne 
and that ulimately error does not so much as 
crouch before its feet, for when truth is placed 
upon its throne, as it will be, there will no 
longer be error. Truth is, but humanity must 
enthrone it. When human beings have en- 
throned it, it will be when human beings have 
done with error, and error, being negative,, 
is not, when the positive of life is recognized. 



Twice 

blessing 

each. 



I am now going. I recognize within myself, 
Martha and Mary, no feature of weariness, 
but I do not forget that possibly I may weary 
you. I will come again. I have a few more 
statements, lessons, for the world, along these 
lines, and then a few more pertaining to the 
home of the soul, and then I shall be done 
coming to you in this way until the autumn, 
as you call it, when, by your permission, of 
course, and free acceptance and welcome, I 
shall come to treat entirely different subjects 
from these, more interesting because more 
vital to the things that are real, and less in 
association with theological nightmares. 

Good-night, my children, good-night. 



THE INNER CIRCLE 119 

("The Teacher lingers for a moment, look- 
ing down upon you, looking upon us all, as if 
his very look were a benediction. An elder 
brother indeed, — twice, thrice, a brother, 
zvhether elder or younger, the very SOUL of 
a brother. How humble and yet how exalted! 
How modest and retiring, and yet what a 
power! As I observe it, how simple in his 
language! As I listen to it, I wonder if its 
simplicity will not condemn it. . . . The 
Bible is not so much read to-day as it was. I 
am afraid its teachings are not believed in so 
much. I am inclined to think that here is an 
epoch — right here, right here, and you are 
making it. I am inclined to think that its in- 
fluence will be so far-reaching that you cannot, 
and I cannot as a spirit, see how far it will 
reach. The world is awaking to the impor- 
tance of spiritual facts, but it is not concerning 
itself any too much as to spirituality. But I 
believe that this matter you are taking is mak- 
ing an epoch. It is something unusual, and 
needed for this spiritualizing. . . . 

"Take the Bible and read it as if you had 
never seen it before. What a different book 
it would be if it were dropped out of the sky! 
What a different book it would be without this 



120 THE LIVING JESUS 

line of purely human interpretation that has 
been given to it! It has been the most savagely 
abused book of any. I am not sure but that 
what you are doing here will be handled 
equally savagely, but it will win. 

"This Teacher moves in a great and very 
beautiful light. When a light out here is a 
light extraordinary in character to us, — here 
where we see lights celestial, — when a light is 
supernormal to us, you must know that it 
means something very unusual." 

John McCullough.) 



April 8, 
1921. 



SESSION 16 
Spiritual Healing Circle 



Gesture of T 1 . , 1 

blessing. 1 bring to you to-day peace. 

Pause, with And who do you say that I am? 

evident You certainly must have some idea. Who 

emotion J 

and earn- do the people you talk with say that I am? 

cstncss 

Pause. Does no man speak? 

A woman 
replied, 

"To some To as many as this becomes a realization is 

of us you . 1 • 1 1 

seem to be it easy to pour out upon and into them the 
j«u"o? er ' Wessing of life. 

Nazareth." 

The Many years ago one said, "My kingdom is 

Kingdom, not of this world." That individual spoke the 
truth concerning himself, when he said, "My 
kingdom is not of this world." It was pos- 
sible for him to make this announcement sim- 
ply because he had come into a consciousness 
of himself and of what he himself was made. 
There are two selves in every individual. The 
purely human self cannot say, "My kingdom 

is not of this world." The divine self cannot 

121 



122 THE LIVING JESUS 

say, "My kingdom is not of this world," until 
the divine self rises above that other self's 
dominancy and power. 

You, the real you, has no kingdom of this 
world. Your kingdom, that kingdom of you, 
the real you, is of the spiritual world, not of 
the physical world. The spiritual kingdom 
does not admit the entrance,, to its holy and 
sacred precincts, of things which are of the 
world kingdom. Sickness is of the world 
kingdom; and on the throne of this world 
kingdom sits the king — the fear of death. In 
Earnest- the spiritual kingdom there is no fear of death, 

n ess 

evident. and in this kingdom there is no death. There 
is no sickness to mar the bright experiences 
of the you of you, after you have entered into 
your real kingdom. Weakness, poverty — 
these are of the world kingdom. They have 
no place or power in the spiritual kingdom, 
your kingdom, my kingdom. No casualties are 
known to the people of the spiritual kingdom. 
Tears plow their furrows adown the cheeks 
of human beings in the world kingdom. In the 
spirit kingdom God wipes away all tears from 
the eyes. In the world kingdom you have 
night, and you have darkness ; but you have a 
kingdom, the real you of you,, a spiritual king- 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 123 

dom. Into this you will enter ; and there is no 
night there. 

It is not in accordance with divine law that 
one should find entrance into the spiritual king- 
dom only after the change of death has come; 
but the very moment that the real you of you 
comes into its own, it can say of a truth, "My 
kingdom is not of this world." You can move 
out from darkness, out from casualties' dis- 
turbances, out from weaknesses, out from 
sickness — now, because your real you is 
stronger than the you of you functioning in 
the midst of these immaturities. The stronger 
can master the weaker, and the stronger 
should be triumphant and altogether victorious. 

"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from 
whence cometh my strength." "Lift up your 
heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye ever- 
lasting doors, and the King of Glory shall 
come in." Your King,, the King of the you 
that is real and abiding, is the King of Glory. 
Lift up from before you all the gates that hold 
back the inflow of the great, the good, and the 
the strong, and the purifying and life-giving 
waters shall flow into your lives and bless you. 

/ am going to bless you. If there is any one 



124 THE LIVING JESUS 

or two seeking special blessing and help, you 
Gesture to may take a seat here. 

a chair J 

placed 

Then And now I am going to leave, but I will 

hi^usual come once more, and I will come with you 
ministry of longer. I have much I want to say to you. 
I leave with you the blessing of my own pres- 
ence. You shall all be healed of your infirm- 
ities, and your needs shall be ministered to 
abundantly. 
Hand < The blessing of Almighty God,, your Father 

blessing! an d mv Father, rests upon you. 

("Good afternoon, friends. I just step in 
for a moment, but only for the reason that I 
have to, to give aid to this influence in his com- 
ing and going. He is not accustomed to taking 
possession of the physical organism, therefore 
I help in the interests of the medium and in 
the interests of the Teacher. 

"I heard the Teacher say that he would 
come 'once more/ I think he meant merely that 
he would come again and then again perhaps. 
I, personally, as the guide of this medium, 
should feel very disappointed, for you at least, 
if I thought that the Teacher would come only 
once more here. I know that he is doing a 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 125 

great work that you are not, any of you, con- 
scious of, through this medium, — a work with 
which you will be familiar in the course of 
time. Yet I hope that his presence will be 
continued here, because I see, as a spirit, the 
help that comes to you; for I see that you are, 
every one of you, helped spiritually, mentally, 
and morally, as well as physically. 

"I hope that some day this presence will de- 
clare to you his identity, so that you may have 
no doubt of it, but that will come, if at all, in 
accordance with the Teacher's own plans, and 
not with mine! 3 

John McCullough.) 



April 13, 
1921. 



The usual 
change 
of control 
in the 
medium. 
A great 
calmness 
settled 
over the 
upturned 
features; 
long, deep 
breaths and 
relaxation. 
The palms 
of both 
hands were 



SESSION 17 
The Inner Circle 

("Here is a singular intimation oj the com- 
ing of the Teacher. There are several stand- 
ing all around here, waiting. They do not 
want to miss a word. If you people of the 
earth life were as interested in getting a word 
from such a Teacher as they of the spirit 
world, what a difference it would make! 

"He is coming. 

"I see the light. It is always the same." 

lohn McCullough.) 

May that composure which peace of Heaven 
itself can give, bless you both, and all of you, 
now. Peace, peace, peace be with you during 
this hour. 

Great facts of nature invariably impress 

human minds. The impress made upon the 

human mind by the facts of nature leads to 

something of a concept concerning the facts; 

and in association with some of the greatest 

and most important features of natural facts 

126 



THE INNER CIRCLE 127 

first opened ^ CO ncept is so erroneous that, under the 

upward, r . 

and ex- error, the fact is pursued for a time, when the 
Sprayer- magnitude of the error becomes so great and 
|illy re- appalling that the fact itself is lost sight of, 
blessing of and the one pursuing it ceases his pursuit. 
Bofhhands The doctrine of predestination and fore- 
Ssed^n 11 or dination is a doctrine that is being rapidly 
blessing, deserted by humankind. Interest, practically 
hand, with all interest in it on the part of careful thinkers 
pYa?ed S 1S g° ne >* an d yet predestination and foreordin- 
in the . ation are facts of nature. The fact is being 
continuing lost sight of, because of the false idea con- 
each C per- cerning that fact. The theory concerning it 

berie- he ^ as k een on * y a sn £ nt P art c o rr ect> and for 
diction. the most part false and incorrect. There is 
same hand, a difference, as the world must see, possibly 
nnger° re " ex isting between a theory concerning a fact 
pointing a nd the fact itself. Mankind is not without a 
a large power of choice, excepting for ultimates. In 
Long certain ultimates of human progression, the 

pause. individual has no choice, and it is in these ulti- 
ness. mates that the facts of predestination and fore- 

Predesti- ordination are found, are realized. It is not 
Fore" Md correct to teach, however, that the individual 
ordination man has any very extended latitude of choice, 
even in the passage, in the progressive move- 
ments, along the line of life's travel out toward 



128 THE LIVING JESUS 

the ultimate; but mankind collectively has 
power to choose to an almost unlimited extent. 
It has never been decreed that some people 
are to go and live eternally in a heaven, and 
others to go and live eternally in misery. The 
length of time that people live in misery de- 
pends upon this universal human choice. 
Herein is plainly enough set forth the impor- 
tance of universal soul culture, training, educa- 
tion ; but all life is in the keeping- of our Loving 
Father. If any or all can determine accurately 
what the All-loving Father is, in that discov- 
ery, and all that it can mean and does mean, 
will be found that very thing, that very state, 
that very condition for which, from the begin- 
long*' ning, all life is predestined and foreordained. 

pause. 

The Child Once I took a little child and placed it in 
Midst. the midst of men who had grown to believe 
that they were near to the All-loving Father, 
when, as a matter of fact, they had been for a 
long time growing away from the great Deific, 
Loving Principle. The object in this placing 
of the child in their midst was to reveal to 
them the truth — that they were indeed far 
away from the very loving Father-Mother 
Principle. By this they might have been able 



THE INNER CIRCLE 129 

to realize the full import of the revelation; but 
that revelation was,, as it was known it would 
be, reserved for later days and other people. 

Notwithstanding this object lesson, claim- 
ants to a fellowship with the Teacher, and the 
teaching's of the Man of Sorrow, went about, 
manufacturing and placing before the world 
that torturous and tragic idea of infant dam- 
nation, an idea which sanity at last forced into 
the midst of other forgotten things. To- 
night I repeat, Except ye become like unto a 
little child, ye cannot enter into the Kingdom 
of Heaven; and I further say, — because I 
know that it is true, — that no one living in 
human form is so near God and Heaven as 
the little smiling babe, looking up with eyes 
and whole soul filled with trust into its 
mother's face. 

The rose yonder is not so sweet in its fra- 
grance now as it was before it had opened up so 
much. The bud is sweeter than the full-blown 
rose ; but the sweetness in that rose will not be 
lost, neither is any of the sweetness that it 
has exhaled lost. 

So with the rose-tinted beauty of babyhood, 
sweeter, nearer Heaven and God than the un- 
folded man and woman; yet all the sweetness 



130 THE LIVING JESUS 

in the human bud and in the rounded-out, ma- 
tured being is preserved, is kept; and it, with 
all which it gathers to itself through the pass- 
ing of the years here, is preserved, is saved 
and enters into the budding life in its birth 
into the world where physical bodies do not go. 



The 

Abstract 
and the 
Concrete. 



Pause. 



The world in which you now live is a good 
world. The earth upon which you reside is a 
better earth upon which to live than it ever 
was before. It is even better to-day, as a place 
to inhabit, than it was yesterday; and it will 
be better for you to-morrow than it is to-day. 

Your earth is so desirable a place that mil- 
lions of exalted spirits take great delight and 
experience large pleasures in living upon it, 
right here in the midst of human beings. This 
is the result of their own choice, too, for no 
spirit is, for a long time at least, under absolute 
necessity of living upon this earth. There are 
many planets something like this earth upon 
which you live, upon which intelligent people 
make their homes, both in human and in ex- 
carnate expressions of life. It is not possible, 
however, for a spirit, going out of the human 
body, who lived upon your earth, to visit at will 
one of these other earths in anything like what 



THE INNER CIRCLE 131 

might be thought of as a short time. A spirit 
can travel more rapidly than sound, more 
rapidly than light; but a spirit recognizes 
space and time, though not in the same sense 
as do human beings. 

Human beings need concrete expression of 
thought in order to recognize thought and 
thought's power and force. The concrete ex- 
pression is to the human being real. That 
which produces it, this earth, this concrete, 
easily observed feature of creative results, is 
not recognized any too vividly, — that which is 
outside of the concrete, that which gave con- 
creteness of expression. Human beings call 
that outer thought abstract. In the development 
of mind, such development as will come through 
soul culture in association with mental training, 
it is the destiny of mankind to reverse this 
order of things, and look upon abstract thought 
as the concrete ; and that which mankind desig- 
nates to-day as the concrete will be resolved 
into the abstract, for mankind will know that it 
is not the real, and will realize that the real is 
the thought that produced it; and the thought 
that produced it produced it in the concrete ex- 
pression, that the concrete aspect might stimu- 
late thought upon the part of the individual, 



132 THE LIVING JESUS 

until the individual, through thinking, reaches 
out and grasps the real. The abstract is the 
real, and the concrete is but the shadow of the 
real. 

That which you see and recognize as your 
fellowman is but the concrete expression of 
him. You are destined to a realization some- 
time that this concrete expression is not the 
real neighbor, but only the shadow of the real 
neighbor; yet that realization is impossible 
until you come to know that which is to you 
now the invisible neighbor. 

It is important that the reality of mankind 

become recognized, but with that recognition, 

Great let the world remember as it reads, there will 

ness. thereafter remain no possible opportunity for 

doubting the — eternal — life; because the 

same principle within man that recognizes his 

real neighbor instead of his neighbor's shadow, 

becomes capable of recognizing that great 

Leaning truth, "Millions of spiritual beings walk the 

ancT^ earth unseen, both when we wake and when 

smiling. we sleep." Oh, the great fact of the continuity 

of life through the eternities is to be brought 

down so near that all will be able to see it, 

though none will behold the beauties and the 

privileges of the unimprisoned soul until he 



THE INNER CIRCLE 



133 



Smilingly 
and with 
great 
earnest- 
ness. 



passes through the door of rebirth, sometimes, 
and most frequently now, erroneously desig- 
nated as death. 

There is — only — one world, and in that 
world there are thousands and millions of 
planets. Thousands of these planets are in- 
habited by millions and millions of souls, but 
Emphatic- a u SO uls are to come to the knowledge which 
is in the Father of All Souls ; and that knowl- 
edge will, of course, be sufficient to satisfy all 
souls that there is only one world, one universe, 
with many parts. That Central Light is 
drawing all life to it, even as the lamp, placed 
out of doors on an evening in June, draws 
millions of God's created beauties to it. Yet 
in that Light no one is destroyed ; by that Light 
all are absolutely and perfectly redeemed, — 
not even is one left out, for the Light extends 
to all, reaches all, draws all to it. That Light 
is the Deific Principle, the Father and the 
Mother — God. 



I bless you, my tired children, and you both 
will rest well to-night under this blessing. You 
have made me happy by your patience, by your 
faithfulness. While I seek to bless you, I 
bless you as two, and only two, among millions 



134 THE LIVING JESUS 

whom I am seeking to bless. Having done the 
Father's work so far, awaiting further oppor- 
tunity to continue it, and with my blessing, I 
Prolonged leave you. 

blessing to 
each, and 
to the 
medium. 



April IS, 
1921. 



The 

Immediacy 
of Healing. 



SESSION 18 
Spiritual Healing Circle 



To as many of you as will receive it, I bring 
health and happiness now. To as many of 
you as will receive it, I bring health and hap- 
Long piness now. 

DclUSC 

during The blind did receive their sight, and the 

Teacher blind may receive their sight now. The lame 
remained were m ade to walk and the deaf to hear. The 

with up- 

Hftedface, lame may walk now, and the deaf may hear 
prayer. now. To as many as will receive it, do I bring 
the cleansing power of God, — cleansing 
from all that makes for infirmity,, whether of 
mind or body. I bring this to you. I place 
it here within your reach. I even ask you to 
reach out and take it. To as many of you as 
are willing and ready to receive it, health, 
strength of purpose, happiness shall be given 
Extending n ow — now — this moment. Now such as 

his hand , . . , ,. . , 1 

toward these are receiving the divine help. 

were^deaf. I am tne li&ht, but the darkness knows me 
not. With it I have no fellowship. It has no 
fellowship with me. I bring the light, not to 

135 



136 THE LIVING JESUS 

bless humanity's darkness, but to lift human 
beings out of darkness into this light. I have 
waited these many,, many years for this op- 
portunity to bless the world. You here as- 
sembled are but a few. I bring the light, I 
G/lV 11 " 6 - bring my light, my strength, the health of God, 

of blessing. J ° 

to you — few. The words I speak now, the 
words I speak now, are going out and will 
reach millions and millions with the blessing 
that goes out with the power of the spoken 
word. Some will hear, and, hearing, will hear; 
some will hear, and, hearing, not hear. Some 
having eyes to see, will not see; some, having 
eyes with which to see, will see. 
Expression Have you faith in me? 

as of J 

longing. To as many of you as have faith in that 

voices power which comes to you through me, and 

"Yes?"' have faith in me, to so many of you as have 

this, I bring the blessing of Heaven. Ye shall 

not walk in the darkness of sin, and sickness 

Pause. i s s j n# j S eek you all — only to bless you. If 

your spiritual vision could now be opened up, 

so that you could clearly see that which is 

around about you, undoubtedly your faith in 

that power which comes with me would be so 

great that you would all be healed at once now ; 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 



137 



More 
voices 
answered, 
"Yes." 



A sense 
of the 
outflowing 
of breath, 
or longing, 
or person- 
ality, from 
the 
Teacher. 



but you cannot see it. But have you faith in 
me? Then believe me when I say, that power 
is here, though you cannot see it. You cannot 
go hence without taking it with you — this 
power — this healing force. 

One did say, "Ye did run well, but who did 
hinder ?" Some of you perhaps will go hence, 
and will run well under the blessing of this 
power for a time. But why should you not 
run always well? Is it not better to run well 
always, if it is better to run well at all? 

I bring you health. I bring you happiness. 
I bring you my light. I bring these to you, that 
you may live in them and by them. I bring 
to you myself — it is all that I can bring. I 
long ago learned this lesson — that he who 
would save his life must give his life, and give 
it freely. I give to you the very breath of my 
life — now — to-day I give it to you. 

Heaven is for you now, if you will but enter 
into it. It is here. It is for you. Take it. 
Choose it. Enter into it. I bring you Heaven 
when I bring you happiness, for happiness is 
Heaven. I bring you Heaven when I bring 
you health. I bring you Heaven when I bring 
you strength. Through happiness,, through 
health, through strength are ye redeemed from 



138 THE LIVING JESUS 

all weakness, and made whole. It is not what 
I say, however, that helps you most; it is just 

Evidence what I am doing for you now, what I am 

earnest- bringing to you now. 

ness. j w i\\ heai £ W0 people, if they will sit here, 

pause. one at a time. Then I will heal you all. 



You have said it. 



SESSION 19 

April 27, 

1921. _, _ _. , 

Announce- The Inner Clrcle 

ment of 

g de " tl ^ y * My love and peace I bring to you as my 

upraised in blessing. 

greeting; 

right hand 

with open And now who do ye say that I am ? 

palm 

directed to 
each. 
Usual 

blessing 
for all. 
Face 
upturned. 

E. P. W. 
replied: 
"What we 
have said 
before, — 
the 

Master." 
E. B. O. 
said: 

"Thou art 
Jesus of 
Nazareth." 

Long, very 
long pause. 

The 

Harvest of 
Happiness. 



Sorrow is a state of mind. Unhappiness is 
a state of mind. Happiness is a state of mind. 
And states of mind are expressed in the in- 
dividual as feeling, just feeling. 

A good gardener will endeavor to keep all 
weeds, obnoxious weeds, from springing up 
and growing in his garden. He will, further- 
more, do everything possible for him to do to 
provide the very best conditions for the ger- 
minating process, after he has carefully selected 
and scattered the seeds, such seeds as are in 

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140 THE LIVING JESUS 

harmonious relation to the kind of products 
looked forward to, expected. Furthermore, 
if he is a really intelligent gardener, he will not 
only plant and sow, but he will water and cul- 
tivate,, and then give thorough recognition to 
the divine fact of nature that God, and God 
alone, can give the increase. 

I assume that no one who reads this, and 
reads it understanding^, will deny that, in 
order for a gardener to be a really good gar- 
dener, he must give recognition to the Divine 
Spirit, he must be a man who loves God. Ev- 
ery individual who lives, — and it matters not 
where he lives,, whether in the earth or spirit 
life, — is a gardener, and also the possessor of 
a garden. The gardener in the physical world, 
the tiller of the soil, does not feel right if weeds 
spring up and choke valuable things in their 
way of growth and unfoldment. He does not 
feel right because of the realization which he 
holds of the lamentable fact that the weeds 
are there, choking the life out of the valuable 
products, in direct consequence of his own lazi- 
ness and indifference. 

In this garden, — the garden which every 
man has, — will grow weeds, weeds of sor- 
row, weeds of unhappiness. If the gardener 



THE INNER CIRCLE 141 

Pause; desires happiness, he must cultivate happiness, 
earnest- and keep out the weeds of unhappiness and of 



ness. 



sorrow. If weeds of unhappiness and sorrow 
spring up and choke or hinder the growth and 
unfoldment of his happiness-product, he will 
have a feeling, born of a mental state. The 
feeling will hurt, the mental state will condemn 
him, because of his indifference and laziness 
as a gardener, who is taking care of, or was 
left to take care of, a garden in which nothing 
need grow but happiness. 
Expression It is regrettable to see the weeds of unhap- 
piness destroying the products of happiness, all 
along the way wherein happiness is growing 
and unfolding itself; but the greatest regret, 
the deepest regret, comes to the gardener in 
the harvest season, if he has neglected to keep 
the weeds of sorrow and unhappiness out of 
his garden; because, if at this point and in this 
he has failed, he will nevertheless be forced to 
reap the weeds of unhappiness and sorrow, 
and what little of happiness the weeds have 
not destroyed. 

If men would be as watchful in the spiritual 
garden as in the physical garden, and as sen- 
sible in the care of the one as in the care of the 
other, their harvest would be one of happiness 



142 THE LIVING JESUS 

and of joy, and their bins would be filled with 
that grain which is imperishable, and which 
they take with them out into the Home of the 
Soul. Where there is only a little happiness 
gathered, and a great deal of unhappiness and 
sorrow reaped, since the unhappiness and sor- 
row cannot be taken into the world of the soul, 
there is but little that can be taken, for there 
has been but little gathered that is fit to be per- 
mitted an entrance to the soul's habitation, the 
bright world,, the celestial world. 

Spirit Martha and Mary, — for you are Martha 

and Mary to me, — you know, the world 
knows, r that the traveler, foot-weary and alone, 
longs for something different from, weariness 
and lonesomeness. You know, and the world 
knows, that to the lonesome one the days are 
long. The nights are welcomed,, because at 
night, for a time, he is in measure refreshed 
and his loneliness forgotten. Every such trav- 
eler at one time had a home, knew the bless- 
edness of a mother's enfolding arms of love 
and a father's paternal protection. And what 
could come to such a traveler, away, alone, 
which would be more welcome than a knowl- 
edge that he was to be permitted to return to 



THE INNER CIRCLE 143 

his home? One away from the original home, 
the place of his childhood days, even though 
surrounded by every comfort, desires nothing 
more from time to time than just the privilege 
of returning, going back to the home of his 
childhood days, to all that that home ever 
meant to him. Even though the father, 
mother, brothers, and sisters have all passed 
away from it, there is something particularly 
charming in just returning to the old home 
place. It ever remains a part of something 
dear to him. 

Well, all people sooner or later leave the 
earth home and travel out into the world of 
excarnate beings, become citizens of the world 
of spirits,, freed from human flesh bondage. 
Such a freedom, such a release, instead of lim- 
iting one's power, increases it, for in almost 
all respects flesh is a bondage to the spirit. 
The same love holds, and holds forever and 
forever. It is a long time before that love out- 
grows the desire to come into touch again with 
the things of the earth life, the homes and the 
people. Being free to go and to come, prompt- 
ed by love to return to the old home of the 
earth, their return is hindered by nothing, but 
everything helps toward it. And so we say to 



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THE LIVING JESUS 



Great 
earnest- 
ness. 



the millions of people living now in the earth 
sphere of being, When you go out into the 
world of souls beyond, you will go into new 
homes, it is true, but it will be as easy for you 
to return to your old homes as it will be easy 
for you even to entertain the desire to do so. 
This is the law of love; and in view of its being 
the law of love, who is there who would not 
have it so? 



Judgment 
Day. 

Earnest- 
ness. 



Every day is Judgment Day, and every man 
and every woman is his and her own judge. 

The soul within the individual is but a part 
of the Great Soul of the universe; that soul 
within the individual is endowed with the 
power and wisdom with which to pass judg- 
ment, and it uses that power and wisdom to 
judge just self. 

No man or woman is ever punished for sins. 
Sins are punishments, and in time every one 
will learn this, though most people will learn 
it through the pain and suffering which sin it- 
self will inflict upon the sinner. It is not God 
who punishes His children because they sin, 
but it is sin which punishes mankind, because 
they are the children of God. Their own con- 
sciousness of this great, immortal fact of na- 



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145 



ture will become altogether and completely 
clear with an understanding of this great and 
marvelous cause-and-eflect law. 



E. p. w. 

replied, 
"Yes." 
E. B. O. 
said, 
"I do." 

E. P. W. 
replied, 
"Yes, as 
long as 
you want.' 
E. B. O. 
said, 
"We are 
only too 
glad to." 



Tenderness 
on the 
word 
"dear." 

Great 
feeling. 

A 

Prophecy. 



Martha and Mary, believest thou that I am 
come as the spirit of him who was called "The 
Man of Sorrow?" 

And believing this,, you even feel willing to 
follow on for a little while in this work? 

I am he whom thou thinkest me to be. 

As you know, as students of history, I lived, 
taught, and more than that, worked as a man 
years ago here upon earth among men. You 
know from history that I had my followers, 
those dear disciples. All were true, and yet 
two,, being true, were nevertheless false. One 
betrayed me and the other denied me. It was 
not their real, true self which denied and be- 
trayed me; it was that other self of their selves. 
Yet they all suffered who followed me. They 
suffered in many ways. Not one of them suf- 
fered less than I. Each and every one suffered 
more than I ever suffered. There was a reason 
for this. They could not see far enough ahead 



146 THE LIVING JESUS 

to see the glory that awaited me ; and in seeing 
that glory, realizing what it really was to be in 
my life, I was practically forgetful of every 
trouble, of every phase and feature of perse- 
cution heaped upon me. I may say that the 
thorns pressed upon the head were almost 
Convulsive unnoticed and even Golgotha's tragedy was a 

swallowing . ° ° J 

for an victory. 

Now, you have been, and are, faithful. You 
are doing a work I desire to have you do. For 
me? Ye-s,, but more for my brothers and sis- 
ters who are here in your midst, journeying on 
in the human pathway of life. Remember, re- 
member, remember — there will be those who 
will try you, both of you. The world at large 
will not try you, or condemn you, for if it were 
the great, indefinite world people, the great 
multitudes, who would inflict upon you the 
ribaldry of their ignorance, you would not 
mind; but such inflictions as will come to you, 
which will affect you because of your follow- 
ing me here, will come from those you thought 
you knew best, — relatives, perhaps, associates 
who are near you, those who will say, "You 
have lost your mental poise." Yet the lash 
and sting of their criticism will not cut very 
deep, if you follow me, because for every 



THE INNER CIRCLE 147 

wound I will have a healing balm, and the 
Smilingly, force of your faithfulness as followers here 
will change casual friendship to deepest devo- 
tion; for this truth which you are giving out, 
helping me to get before the people, this truth 
shall change them. And remember, remem- 
ber, remember, you will have a hundred friends 
soon, who will be true and staunch, for every 
one you now have. 

Any man or woman who will follow me must 
do so., not in the spirit of any fear of conse- 
quences, but in that spirit, the holiest, the most 
sacred, — just love. 

And now, dear children, my Martha and 
Mary, faithful ones, true ones,, I go, but with 
you I leave my blessing, I leave my blessing. I 
will soon, very soon, speak again. 



April 29, 
1921. 

Second 
Announce- 
ment of 
Identity. 

Pause. 



Long 
pause. 



Head 
bowed. 

Two or 

three of 
the class, 
and one 
voice 
especially, 
answered, 
"Jesus of 
Nazareth." 
Long, 
long pause 
after his 
declaration 
of himself. 

The 

Living 

Jesus. 



SESSION 20 
Spiritual Healing Circle 

I bring to you to-day health's blessing, and 
as many of you as will receive it shall be made 
whole. 

I have been with you a short time, upon 
different occasions. I have spoken to you, I 
have ministered to you. When I first came to 
you, I said that when you came to understand 
this spirit with which I come to you, you would 
know me. And now who do ye say that I am ? 

Thou hast said it. 

Considerable is said from time to time, and 
by different people, about the Christ doctrine. 
There is no such thing as Christ's doctrine. 
Christ is a principle. / may have set forth a 
doctrine, and I may do so again, concerning 
this principle. 

Also, a great deal is being said about the 

living Jesus,, about the coming into an under- 

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SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 149 

standing of Jesus, the living one. And this is 
Eyebrows we JL Yet the world as a whole does not accept 

raised, 

as if of a living Jesus, and so thoroughly has the 

ITlhS-** world's thought wedded Jesus and the Christ 
native. principle that the Christ principle is measur- 
ably lost in the absence to them of the living 

Pause. J esus> 

It is well, therefore, that the world become 
astounded by the announcement of the pres- 
ence here upon earth, among men, of the living 
Jesus. It has been, is, and will be for a time, 
my purpose, — and a purpose in which I feel 
sure of succeeding, — to awaken the world 
to the fact that the living Jesus is, not only 
here, but a veritable fact of Nature. Through 
the awakening which will come as a conse- 
quence of this endeavor, — an endeavor the 
result of which is going out to millions and 
millions of people, — the Christ principle will 
be restored, restored in that primitive sense 
of the early Christians, who through emulat- 
ing my life and my teachings were infilled with 
the Christ. And through this restoration to 
human needs of the Christ, will millions and 
millions be brought nearer to God, your Fa- 
ther and my Father. 

I know that the world rejected me once, and 



i 5 o THE LIVING JESUS 

more than that I know, — it will reject me 

again. Yet following almost immediately that 

rejection will come an acceptance, not only of 

myself and the fact of my personal presence 

Pause and here, but through that acceptance will be 

Sfsfng of opened the gates, — the gates ! Through that 

the won? 1 acceptance the thin veil will not only be torn 

"here." in twain, but destroyed. 

My children, you are participants in these 

If h the rf g e ht S £ rea t matters of life. Not far ahead you will 

hand, as'it realize, looking back upon this hour, what this 

table, were hour really is to you. Some of you are Thom- 

positfon of ases, and some of you are Johns and Peters 

blessing. an( j Marys. There is nothing which can 

give to you, all of you, absolute freedom,, 

perfect happiness, excepting truth. I am 

come to you that ye might have life, and have 

it more abundantly. For the present season 

of time, my work in your midst is near at an 

end ; but later I have many things to say unto 

Great y OU anc j to the world. And I rejoice in the 

ness. understanding I have that I shall have ample 

opportunity for that further ministration of 

loving helpfulness. You do not understand yet 

the fullness of my purpose in coming here. 

You will understand that later. There are two 

faithful souls who understand this fully, and 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 151 

by their help what I have to say here, and have 
had to say here, I assure you is going out with 
a blessing to millions and millions of human 
beings. 

You are, some of you, my disciples. Follow 
me, and none who follows me shall walk in 
darkness. 

If desired, I will heal one or two, if they 
will sit here before me. 



SESSION 21 

May 4, 
1921. 

The Inner Circle 
This time Peace, my children, be unto you. 

the blessing ' J . . ' J 

was a 1 am filled with joy because of my ability 

one^for to observe that you, and you, and I myself, in 
ttah e th P e e " P ur P ose > s ^ve the mystery — trinity. I surely 
medium, do not say this in any sense of desire to please 
impression you, — except that it is pleasing, and I feel 
^ z d e irect glad to be able to say this which I have said, 
through for it is a fact: and it is a fact which gives 

the closed . , r , . ? 

eyelids. vital warrant to me of the execution of my 

then* two? purpose in coming. Now you will see what 

finders rC f ■"■ mean. We are not one; we are three; but 

the right the purpose we three have is one. 
stretched I am not unmindful or without knowledge, 

Smhe as > °^ course ,> y° u know, that all I am saying 

after word is to go out and out into the world. What I 

"trinity." , . . , M 1 , , , 

Quiet, have just said possibly may be interpreted by 
[aughs S1Ve y° u as strictly personal; but I desire to have 
from the j^ together with all the matter given, go out 
A into the world. I have come to know you both 

rop ecy. gQ w ^ ^^ j j^^ j m pii c if- confidence in both 

152 



E. B. O. 

said, 



THE INNER CIRCLE 153 

of you, in your disposition to carry forward 
this message, and also in your ability to see 
that your disposition materializes. This con- 
versation with you two is one of privilege with 
me, a privilege I have taken to-night, but not 
assumed before. It is rather a personal, 
friendly touch, — a friendly touch that is per- 
sonal. 

reai^ehow ^^ reanza ti° n of that appreciation is my 
much we only warrant for saying to you what I have 
it^ ' ' said to-night. You have both of you seen, and 
you believe, and millions who take up this 
which you are to send forth, not seeing, will 
Smiling. finally believe. 

Discipline. "Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth." 
Slowly, Sooner or later every one comes to know 

sadness, somewhat of the value of discipline. All peo- 
ple are disciplined. The greatest aid to all 
human advancement is discipline. For a time 
Smiling, all discipline seems grievous, but later, its value 
becoming revealed, gives joy, happiness, peace, 
Smile, and because it gives understanding. 

pause. 

Great We have spoken of the great help, aid, and 

face. 6 m assistance to all human beings of discipline. We 

have not yet referred, but we are about to,, to 

the disciplinarian. Great and good results are 



154 THE LIVING JESUS 

invariably and always direct consequences of 
great causes. Who is this great disciple-na- 
rian ? — what is it ? It is simply divine law. 
This law is not only a disciplinarian, it is a 
teacher as well. Were it not for this teacher, 
people would live always in ignorance. No 
spiritual light would shine into their midst, at 
least, so as to be seen, realized, and understood. 
This I hold to be true: That individuals 
gain their wisdom and all real knowledge 
through some one's violation of divine law. If 
what I say is true, violation of divine law 
amounts almost to a divine act. I shall be con- 
demned by some for saying that men are led 
into wisdom and knowledge through the viola- 
tion of divine law,, and that such violation is 
almost divine in itself, but it is divine because 
of what it does. 

Violation of divine law invariably leads to 
pain. Pain is suffering. Pain and suffering 
are taken by the individual to mean discipline, 
— not only this, but more. Pain and suffering 
are not desired, and, if they once come, the 
Uplifted natural thing to do next is to discover if pos- 
face * sible some way to avoid the repetition of that 

pain and suffering; and through the endeavor 



THE INNER CIRCLE 155 

Smile and |- discover this, knowledge comes. Through 

gesture of ; ° . . ° 

head as of the history of the growth of people it is easy 
st e and?ng. er " to see that in all primary states pain and suf- 
fering have been always the most powerful 
agents leading to the study of law, divine law, 
that it and its purpose may be understood. So 
Leaning it has been, is, and always will be. And be- 
eamest-' cause of it, growth has been, is, and always 
will be. 

When a man has mastered a problem simply 
because pain and suffering have suggested the 
importance of such a mastery, from that time 
on,, in association with that particular phase 
of need, he will be prompted to a continuation 
of mastery by a more beautiful teacher than 
that teacher which is at the same time the 
disciple-narian. Thus, through violation of 
divine law, pain and suffering come. These in 
turn lead to investigation concerning the cause 
of things, and the investigation, pursued, 
brings the beautiful revelation of truth. 
As he And so endeth that lesson. 

ended, a 
very beau- 

lighte^hfs I came o nc e, declaring to the world that my 

face. mission was not to destroy the law, but to 

fulfill it. I come to the world to-night to tell 

the world that,, though in its blindness it con- 



156 THE LIVING JESUS 

Chri t' demned me, I am not here, I am not speaking, 
anity. I am not sending these messages out into the 
world, to discredit Christianity, but rather to 
bring Christianity to light; to show the world 
Very great that Christianity is only — living right. In 
ness. 6S " order to live right one must become, through 
experience, wise enough to be normally just to 
self; and when becoming possessed of such 
wisdom,, to live in accordance with: Whatso- 
ever ye would that men should do unto you, 
do ye even so unto them. 
Head If to live such a life constitutes sectarianism, 

negadyely, I will admit of the value to the world of cer- 
ge'sfunT* ta * n ^ eatures of sectarianism; but to live such 
continued, a life is to annul all aspects of sectarianism, 

hand . ,. ,-rr • i- 1 

rapping for to live such a life, 1 repeat, is to live the 

in earnest- Christian life, and the Christian life cannot 

ness. b e lived, in its wholeness and completeness, 

without strictly adhering to the so-called 

"Golden Rule." The Golden Rule is in no way 

Upward applicable,, in its true sense, in the life of any 

of S hand. man > or body of men, until the man, or body 

of men, rises to that nobility of stature which 

is truly spiritual; for to live below such a 

height, such a plane, is to render liable one's 

desiring that another should do unto one that 

which is not spiritually helpful unto one. 



THE INNER CIRCLE 



157 



Smiling. 



Reference 
to the 
hostile 
spirit of 
whose 
presence 
John Mc- 
Culloug-h 
had told us, 
and who 
had been 
forced to 
depart by 
the en- 
trance of 
the Master. 

E. P. W. 

said, "We 
thank you 
for doing 
so." 



Therefore, on that plane, it is not right that 
one should do unto another as he would have 
another do unto him ; but, when one is spiritu- 
ally conscious of the real and vital require- 
ments of human life, then the Golden Rule, 
lived, is the Christian life. 

I have had an unusually pleasant call here 
this evening, because it has afforded me the 
opportunity for delivering the message, or mes- 
sages, to the world, and also the privilege of 
performing a little something helpful to you, 
Martha and Mary. 

What I have done is of the invisible. Once 
upon a time I did enter the Temple, and found 
there people conducting a commercial enter- 
prise; and I did drive the people conducting 
the enterprise, and the enterprise itself, out of 
the Temple. In coming here I found left evi- 
dently something of a similar character, in- 
visible to you, and yet felt by you. I took 
pleasure, for your sakes, in driving it out, and 
did. 

And now I am going away, carrying with 
me another little pleasant memory spot. I am 
going away, only to return again very soon. 
God bless you. 



SESSION 22 
1921. ' Spiritual Healing Circle 

Indul- And now is peace come to you — to you all. 

I find no valued reason for history's repeat- 
ing itself simply and alone in the fact that his- 
tory does repeat itself. 

Earnest- j k now the individual man, the individual 

ness. 

woman, sometime cannot be less than the real 
Pause, with soul individual. It is in the line of destiny, 
of earnest- law, for every man and woman to walk of 
uplifted themselves, independent of purely human- 
face, made supports. All crutches and canes some- 
time will be done away with, — which means 
that many institutions of the present that con- 
stitute crutch and cane, will have to be moved 
out of, for no individual can grow out into that 
soul self while supported by some institutions 
of the present. 

In the fifteenth century there lived a man 
who became a power, a great power, impress- 
ing his time to such an extent that the effect 
has come down through all the years, and still 

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SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 159 

is active. This man was born to show to the 
world the necessity for moving out of a seem- 
ingly good institution in order to get individ- 
ual, normal, spiritual strength. That man of 
whom I speak was Martin Luther. 

I know you are all familiar with the part 
this man played in human history. When he 
was born into the physical world, the church 
entertained certain lines of practice which 
clipped the wings of individual power to rise 
as individuals, independently, — to rise up to 
and into the stature of the soul man. The 
church assumed the power to do for the man, 
in return for certain material considerations, 
that which the man, as they claimed, could not 
do for himself. The church obtained support, 
financial, material support, because it held the 
idea of human dependence upon it; but in- 
wardly the desire was for material support for 
the church, and the individual was ready to 
give that support for the privilege which the 
church in turn gave to the individual. 

In this connection history is now repeating 
itself. You need not be shocked, any of you, 
when I tell you that indulgences are being sold 
to-day, and the traffic in indulgences, their 
sale, is by no means confined to the Catholic 



160 THE LIVING JESUS 

Church. Nor does this which I say relative to 
history's repeating itself in any \vay concern 
the Catholic Church. I find thousands upon 
thousands of people joining the church now, 
or a church, largely because of its promise that 
if the individual will unite with it, he may be 
assured of health, happiness,, and prosperity. 
And this is the sale of indulgences. 

There was a time, there was a time, when 
the disciples were sent out to teach and to heal 
the sick and to do good; but they were never 
instructed by any one to urge people, individ- 
uals, to come and partake of the truth of life 
because of a promise that, if they would do 
so, they could have health or prosperity. It 
was the spirit of the Teacher that they should 
go out and show the world what was right, 
and then invite the world to live right, just 
for right's sake. The church has no power 
to give health. It has no power to bestow 
prosperity. The Christ principle is sole cus- 
todian of this power. It is wrong, because it 
is not right, to promise material values to any 
one as a recompense for doing that which it is 
right to do. Even your Father and my Father 
does not urge you to do right that you may 
escape punishment, if you fail to do right; but 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 161 

you are, rather, invited, — and so are , all, — 
to the light of life, to the truth,, just for the 
truth's sake, just for your sake. 

/ can do nothing for you which you can do 
for yourself. Vicarious atonement is neither 
true nor necessary, and this fact, — and it is a 
fact, — will become revealed to any man, to 
any woman, the very moment they do alto- 
gether right for the only reason that it is right 
to do right. And in that realization they will 
discover the only possible atonement, which is 
found in the meaning of that word rightly 
divided and set before them as the at-one-ment 
with the great Over-soul, your Father and my 



Ministry Father. 

of healing. 



SESSION 23 
f 9 H 6 > The Inner Circle 

First ("I see the light coming I I scarcely expect- 

coming of . . T , . T . . , , A . 

the Master ed it. It is coming! It is almost here. A host 
inner °f heavenly visitors. Even I can see the white 
Circle horses and the chariots, and the winged souls. 

on other ' ■ * 

than a Oh, what an escort! But oh, oh, oh, what an 
evening. ** individual to whom to pay escort! There is 
a kingly splendor to it, and yet it is the com- 
monest of the common in the sphere of that 
life. It is not pomp and pageantry, — / do 
not mean that, — and yet if your eyes could 
be open to see it, it might impress you as such!' 

John McCullough.) 

Peace and joy come to this house. My peace 
I bring to you, and my peace I will leave with 
you when I go away. 

T f h ^ i | I |™J The soul, among things that are real, is the 

most real of all things. Since the soul is, it is, 

of course, always somewhere. You, the deni- 

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THE INNER CIRCLE 163 

zens of earth, speak of the soul's place as the 
spirit world. That is only a term, true,, abso- 
lutely true, but not quite comprehensive 
enough, for the reason that you do not hold 
sufficiently definite ideas of where the spirit 
world is. You, sitting here in this room, are 
now in the spirit world; and if, in a general 
way, people,, thinking of the soul's home, would 
recognize keenly the fact that those who have 
passed out of the body are no more and no 
less souls than you who have not left the body 
are souls, then at once would come the revela- 
tion that the idea of the soul's habitation's be- 
ing the spirit world is not sufficiently compre- 
hensive. 

This sphere of souls, souls freed from flesh, 
is but a state of superior understanding which 
the soul has concerning the world and the 
meaning of things in the world. Independent 
of these different states of understanding, 
there is no veil separating the soul inhabiting 
flesh and the soul released from the physical 
body. 

The expression is too tame, lacks too much 
of force-meaning, to say that the world,, to 
the emancipated soul, is beautiful, beautiful, 
lovely, lovely. I say, these words utterly fail 



164 THE LIVING JESUS 

of meaning at the point where endeavor is 
made to speak properly of what you frequently 
call the spirit land. Millions and millions of 
souls out of the body live right here in your 
midst. They build houses where your houses 
are built, and yet build them, upon vacant lots. 
How strange that statement must be to all who 
read this, even to you who hear it! Perhaps 
it may be made clear to any who will pause 
long enough to read carefully the story of 
how I appeared in the midst of the little gath- 
ering of my followers when they were securely 
locked within that room, for no doors were 
opened to admit of my entrance, since no one 
expected me there. Can it not be seen here 
that to me, as a being out of the physical form, 
walls of matter constituted no obstruction? 
Then, why not build our houses in the spirit 
world on the same lot where your material 
houses are reared, and yet build them upon 
vacant lots? 

Your flowers are the flowers of the soul 
land. Spirits, souls,, have no floral gardens 
independent of those you have; and yet they 
have entirely ^different floral gardens, but dif- 
ferent only because seen as they are, and known 
to be just what they are. The leaves upon the 



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165 



trees mean much to all who admire them and 
enjoy their shade, but to the soul out of the 
body they are as so many whispering instru- 
ments of music ; and yet, and nevertheless, they 
are the same leaves to the soul out of the body 
as they are to you, souls living still in the 
body. The fragrance of a flower, souls in the 
body enjoy until it is all gone out of the flower, 
and the flower faileth; but in that fragrance 
which has gone out from your power of sens- 
ing, there is to the soul out of the body a 
fragrance still, and that fragrance takes on 
even more beautiful coloring than did the 
petals of the rose, the flower you knew and 
loved. 

The beauty and loveliness of all that con- 
stitutes the phenomenon of nature with you 
ceases to be mere phenomenon to the soul out 
of the body, for the soul out of the body per- 
ceives the real and loses sight of the mere phe- 
nomenal expression, — loses sight of it in an 
understanding, in a realization of its reality; 
and, more than this, the reality is traced along 
lines that lead to the primary cause of all. The 
spirit world is no more real to the soul out 
there in the spirit world than it is to you living 
in the body, but a certain sense which the soul 



166 THE LIVING JESUS 

has, — the soul out of the body, I mean, — of 
what is real renders its reality of meaning 
Smiling. Godlike> SU p r emely Godlike, and in it all, be- 
cause of this understanding, the face of God 
is beheld. 

I may have tired you; I may not have been 
able to place this before you as clearly as I 
would like, but I am getting along, I find, so 
as more easily to express myself; and I am 
certain that, as I may be permitted by condi- 
tions to come to you, Martha and Mary, for 
the purpose of helping people later on, I shall 
be able to burden you less, because of my bet- 
E. P. w. ter ability to express properly and more easily 
"This d does what I may have a desire at that time to ex- 
not seem p re ss. I am not unmindful of how tedious this 

tedious r 

to us." all may be to you, but 1 am powerless to make 
added, ' it different just now. Shall I proceed? 

"Or any 
burden." 
The Master 
sighed, as 
if deeply- 
gratified. 

Sectarian- j believe you speak concerning different 
money values as being "denominations," do 
E. P. W. you not ? 
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THE INNER CIRCLE 167 

be before you, or under consideration, it is 
therefore money,, is it not? 

If the denomination were large, it would be 
money; if it were small, it would be money, 
still. 

How different is this from religious denom- 
inations ! Does not a certain religious denom- 
ination differ very materially from another 
religious denomination ? You could not, strict- 
ly speaking, say that a — Give me the name of 
some denomination. Thank you. — You could 
not very well say that a Methodist denomina- 
tion was exactly like unto a Baptist denomina- 
"No," was tion, could you ? And yet both are denom- 
R lv 'of inations of religion, are they not? Then, if 
"Yes." they vary as denominations of religion, do 
these respective denominations have exactly 
the same religion? Then, logically, only one 
of them can possibly be the exact and true re- 
ligion, because, if both of them had exactly 
the true religion, there could be no distinction 
made in their religion as denominations. 

Give me the denominations of some of your 
money, please. 

A cent is money, a dollar is money, but dif- 
ferent denominations of money; yet both de- 
nominations are right, because they are meant 



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THE LIVING JESUS 



Both 

replied, 

"Yes." 



"Method- 
ist" and 
"Baptist." 



E. B. O. 

replied, 

"Yes." 



Leaning 
forward 
with great 
earnest- 
ness, and 
smiling. 



Reply, 
"Cent.' 



to express different quality or quantity of the 
same thing. Is that not right? 

I am glad to have you answer me, and to 
have you put the answer down. What did you 
call those religious denominatipns ? 

Now, the Methodist denomination pursues 
its course of religious life in accordance with 
certain adopted methods. Is this not true? 
And the Baptists also live in accordance with 
certain methods which they have adopted. 
Possibly one or the other of these denomina- 
tions may be employing the absolutely correct 
method, but both cannot be employing the ab- 
solutely correct method, because they are not 
alike. Yet in religion, religion itself, if lived, 
reveals, as man advances, its own methods of 
finding a deeper root in the soil of human as- 
piration toward God. Wrong methods can 
scarcely be trusted to lead to right results ; but 
the right result of living reveals, in the con- 
sciousness of the one living right, the true 
method of living. 

If the Methodist denomination stood for a 
dollar in religion, and the Baptist denomina- 
tion stood for a pence — What do you call 
yours ? — for a cent in religion, then both would 
stand for religion. And if both stood for re- 



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169 



Gradually ligion, true religion, then the method employed 
forward, for living religion upon the part of the Meth- 
fow upo V n ng ° dist and the Baptist would be identical. 

the last 
word in 
conclusive 
emphasis. 

Shall I proceed? 



Christian Science is neither Christian nor a 
science. 

Nothing can be Christian in which the Christ 
principle fails of filling it full. 

Nothing can be a science unless it is true, 
unless it is the truth. 

The Christ principle is interpreted to the 
consciousness of individuals as the individual 
earnestly seeks for the interpretation of it. It 
is not, and cannot be, interpreted in the midst 
of creedal clutter, or in the household of re- 
ligious aristocracy. True religion is a scien- 
tific religion, and the real Christ principle is 
the only real science. 

As Christian Science fails properly to in- 
terpret the Christ principle,, it is not Christian. 
It, therefore, falls short of expressing truth 
in the absolute; and, therefore, it is not science. 
I repeat, Christian Science is neither Christian 



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THE LIVING JESUS 



nor science. Within a half century the truth 
of that to which I am just giving expression 
will become well recognized here in your midst. 



The usual 
benedic- 
tion of 
hand 
raised 
in blessing. 



I have come, and my visit has been one of 
pleasure, particularly so. I love just to be with 
you,, and it is a pleasure to know that I am re- 
awakening the world. And now I am going, 
and I leave with you that which I spoke of 
leaving with you when I came, — my peace. 
Bless you, Martha and Mary, bless you ! 



SESSION 24 

May ii, 



1921. 



The Inner Circle 



The usual The blessing of peace I bring to you, Martha 
Uplifted and Mary, and to this entire household. 

face. 

The Men seek to be great, and men long to be 

Greatness , . , ? ' , . * ,. , 

of Service great,, and omit doing anything leading them 
out to greatness. Often men who really seek 
to be great fail of attaining unto greatness 
simply because they search for it where great- 
ness cannot possibly be found. Those desir- 
ing greatness and doing nothing to gain it, 
of course will not find it. If any man among 
you would be great, let him become a servant. 
Means are very simple, such means as are 
necessary to attain unto greatness. Before 

Gesture of one can serve, he must learn how to serve, and 

when he has come to know how to serve, he 

must discover the right place in which to serve. 

One who is not willing to serve will scarcely 

be led to search out the how, the way, to serve, 

and one who has not attained unto such a 

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172 THE LIVING JESUS 

knowledge will certainly fail to discover a 
place in which to serve. It is only through 
service that one can become great. 

Being qualified to serve, and possessed of 
an- understanding of where to serve, one will 
easily see who should be served. Therefore, 
in service there are three things necessary for 
consideration : — how to serve, where to serve, 
Earnest- an( j whom to serve. It is impossible for one to 

ness. \ 

learn how to serve who continuously lives the 
Expressive- life of a Pharisee. One must be humble. The 

iicss in 

face. superficial mind is apt to confuse service with 

slavery. The former is exalting; the latter is 
degenerating. 

In the universe those who are greatest to- 
day are those who have served most. To serve 
wisely one must find need, and this applies not 
only to human beings,, and to such as have 
passed out of the physical body into those first 
spheres of consciousness in the world of ex- 
carnates, but as well to those who have arrived 
at the most exalted spheres of life. They of 
the most exalted sphere serve where service 
is most needed. This explains in a measure 
why I am here. It is only natural that I 
should be here, since I have thoroughly learned 
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THE INNER CIRCLE 173 

Let no one say, — and if they would speak 
wisely they will not say, — that the most ex- 
alted spirits do not come near the earth and 
its people. They do, because upon the earth 
and in the midst of the people of the earth is 
found the greatest need for service; therefore, 
the naturalness to really great souls, exalted 
souls, of mingling with even the humblest of 
God's children, struggling here in the darkness 
of time to find some rays of light which may 
reveal the fact of an eternity, and one in which 
growth and progress and development are pos- 
sible. 

There will be those who read these utter- 
ances of mine who will say all manner of 
things in an attempt to discredit the truth of 
my claim to identity, such as I have set forth 
already ; and this will not be the first time that 
such an attitude has been assumed toward me, 
and toward others. 

There is a Latin phrase familiar to all, Vox 
del, vox populi, — "The voice of God is the 
voice of the people." The reverse of that, 
"The voice of the people is the voice of God," 
is true, but true only when the real voice of 
the real people goes forth. And let it always be 
remembered that there is a vast difference be- 



174 THE LIVING JESUS 

tween the voice of the people and the clamoring 
shout of the mob. Let the word go forth, let 
these words go forth : He who would be great, 
let him, serve; and he who would serve wisely, 
let him search out the greatest need for serv- 
ice, and finding this, let that be his place as a 
Smile. servant. 

Very long 
pause. 

Spiritual The Bible is of Eastern origin. Its alle- 
insight gories and poems, — some of which, too, are 
allegories, — are presented in a symbolism 
peculiar to the Eastern mind. The Western 
mind finds great difficulty in interpreting prop- 
erly that symbolism. So far, its attempt in 
this direction has proved almost a failure. The 
Western mind is characterized largely by a dis- 
position to bring the things spiritual down; 
the Eastern mind attempts to bring that which 
is down up. And because of the Eastern 
mind's persisting through centuries in elevat- 
ing the earthly toward the heavenly, the ma- 
terial mind toward the spiritual mind, it has 
succeeded very measurably in securing for its 
spiritual foundation a place of Himalayan 
heights. The Western mind has succeeded, in 
degree, in bringing the Heavens down to earth, 
sufficiently so, through persisting, to have 



THE INNER CIRCLE 



175 



gained a taste of Heavenly conditions; but 
that taste has, metaphorically speaking, be- 
come desirous for more, and Heaven itself is 
being lifted up gradually. The Western mind 
is beginning to look up there, out there, toward 
heavenly states, toward Heaven itself, and is 
rising up, through the desire for more of that 
taste; and the upward movement in this con- 
nection will, during the next century, be very 
rapid, and the West will surpass in attaining 
unto spiritual understanding anything which 
the East has ever attained to as yet. 

Oh, oh, all this cajoling, inviting, almost 
commanding Heaven to come down, is under- 
stood by the souls who are helping earth's peo- 
ple on their way ; and Heaven comes down,, — 
but not to stay; rather, to show the way! It 
is showing the way, and it is leading the soul 
of earth up, higher and higher. 

It has been promised that the wilderness 
shall bloom and blossom as the rose, but the 
wilderness referred to was certainly not in 
any sense the vast wild territory of woodland 
or of prairie ; it was, rather, the wilderness of 
the mind, the wilderness of the soul. That 
prophecy has been in process of fulfillment not 
only since the day of its utterance, but it was 



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THE LIVING JESUS 



Intense 
earnest- 
ness. 



in a process of fulfillment long prior to that 
time. Yet during all time, never has there 
been given such an evidence of the possibility 
and probability of its fulfillment as is being 
given now; and the next fifty years yvill pro- 
duce flower gardens of mental and spiritual 
beauty where now exists the mental and soul 
wilderness. 



e. p. w. 

said, "You 
know that 
you can 
have our 
assistance 
as long as 
you want 
it." 



Both hands, 
raised and 
held in 
benedic- 
tion. 



And now I am going to leave you, in a sense, 
but we will meet again, of course, very soon. 
And then, with your assistance I will talk fur- 
ther on to the world. 

You — have — said — it. I shall need that 
assistance after this work is all done. I want 
your assistance forever, and you, as you come 
to know better, more fully, will want and need 
mine; and you both, yes, you three, shall have 
it. 



May 13, 
1921. 



SESSION 25 
Spiritual Healing Circle 



Heart. 



I have asked the Father that health, peace, 
and happiness come to you all — here — to-day. 
Purity of Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall 
see God. 

Some one has said that "Seeing is believing," 
but I say, To see is to feel. The matter of 
Long -.u vision, as it reaches out, is a matter relatively 

pause, with t ' J 

turning of important. That which you are able to see, 
different merely see with your physical eyes, means 
^room. muc h t° you; and yet relatively it means but 
very, very little. 

The pure in heart see God. God cannot be 
seen with the physical eyes; only manifesta- 
tions of God can be seen with the physical eyes. 
The eye that soul fully sees, sees more than the 
manifestations of God in the varied expres- 
sions of His manifestation. It sees God in the 
manifestation, and that certainly is seeing 

more than one sees who merely beholds the 

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178 THE LIVING JESUS 

manifestation itself. Whatever may be seen 
produces its effect in a feeling of the individual 
seeing- it. The nature and quality of the things 
seen determine the value to one, born of the 
feeling produced upon one as a reflex action of 
the thing beheld. 

To be pure in heart is to be„ at the center, 
filled with the All-good. Here there must be 
no alloy; no baser metal must enter into the 
composition of this coin, purity of heart. The 
heart referred to is not the physical heart; it 
is the real, central being, rather. The central 
being must be pure, and it cannot be pure, free 
from every taint of alloy, free in every degree 
from baser things, until the true center being 
is normal ; and the normal center being is God, 
God Himself,, in the being. The purer the 
heart here, the more of God will be seen, is 
seen. 

One may look upon the rose and behold it 
as a rose, but one who is pure in heart will see 
in the rose the smiling face of Deity. It is 
important to see God; to see God is to feel 
God ; to feel God is to feel like God ; and to feel 
like God one must have a sense of purity with- 
Smile. in, for without that purity God cannot be seen. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 179 

The Living l 1 am ^vith you alway. I would I could 

Presence. ' J / 

render this truth a fact in the common con- 
sciousness of all humanity, — Lo, I am with 
Special y0 u alway, even unto the end. 

emphasis J . J ' . 

on the It is true, I am with you alway. It is natural 

and a smile, that I should be near you alway, even unto the 
and pause. tn ^ You need, you people of this great world, 
need help. It is my desire to bring to you help. 
This is my mission in life — just to bring help. 
I have never gone far away from the center 
where help is most needed. When the soul 
becomes disengaged from the physical body, it 
is no longer limited in its possibilities of reach- 
ing out to people who need, and also of sup- 
plying those needs. This unlimited privilege 
is the soul's emancipated disposition, for dis- 
position is held frequently in bondage. The 
soul, therefore, is unlimited in its possibility to 
go wherever desire prompts, and disposition 
to help is unbounded, as well as unhindered. 

I am here to help you, because of my recog- 
nition of your need for help. I have rilled this 
place this afternoon with a healing quality, 
because of my recognition of your need for it. 
You will be healed by this healing quality in 
accordance with your faith in its power to heal 
you. If your faith is strong, you will reach 



180 THE LIVING JESUS 

out forcibly, earnestly, for it, and you will 
secure it. According to your faith, be it unto 
you. I speak not of myself when I say, / am, 
and I, as the I AM, have merely brought to 
you that which is committed to me by your 
Father and my Father. We are brothers and 
sisters all, children of one Father, and that 
one Father is infinite in His resources, and 
infinite in loving disposition toward you, to- 
ward me, — His children. 

I will ask you all to-day to close your eyes 
and in the silence look out, feel your way out, 

Gesture, into this which surrounds you, this healing 
power, to the end that you may be filled with 
it,, and just for a few moments I will stay and 

Long, long join with you in this silent healing. 

pause. 

My Heavenly Father, these are all Thy 
children. They love Thee, and we ask that 
Thou wouldst glorify Thyself to-day through 
their health and happiness. Speak the word 
of their health, Heavenly Father, now, now — 
the word of Thy health, speak it unto every 
child here now. 

We will now retire from just this spot, this 
place ; but we leave with you this healing, help- 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 181 

ful power. You shall take it with you. Each 
one of you will feel better as you go from 
here. 

And now,, Loving Father, we commit all of 
these children into Thy keeping. 



May 25, 
1921. 

Hand 
raised in 
blessing 
over each, 
then moved 
widely as 
over all the 
assembled 
spirits. 
Spoken 
yearningly. 
Long 
Pause. 
Govern- 
ments. 



SESSION 26 
The Inner Circle 

All hail, blessed helpers, all hail! 

I do not assume to be, nor will I call myself, 
the Prince of Peace; but I am one who loves 
peace so fully that for it I am willing and glad 
to give all that it is possible for one to give — 
all that I am; and all that I am, I give for 
peace. 

The governments of the earth, as they exist 
and operate to-day, are the outgrowth of hu- 
man mind-and-soul evolution. The plan and 
pattern of human beings' governments exist 
not for the purpose of proclaiming to the world 
their respective states of civilization, but they 
do proclaim just that state of civilization to 
which the people constituting these govern- 
ments have attained. Human governments, 
national governments, are governments be- 
cause of civilization. Where civilization fails 

of expression, there there is no government. 

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THE INNER CIRCLE 183 

Human government, at its best, has failed to 
annul or eliminate savagery. At its best, it 
succeeds partially in restraining, curbing, and 
holding in abeyance savage people, and pre- 
vents measurably such as these from express- 
ing in society savagery. Human governments, 
at their best, operate more in lines and courses 
of restraint than in connection with any other 
feature or item of governmental functioning; 
but notwithstanding the years that have come 
and gone, the average mind fails, not in dis- 
cerning clearly the fact of savagery as having 
still an existence, bu,t in locating justly and 
righteously that branch of society wherein sav- 
agery is most prominent and most powerful. 

In what is termed civilized society, it would 
be far from pleasing to tell the most thorough- 
ly untamed man that he was still a savage and 
that his conduct was that of savagery. Even 
such a one would be offended if told this. Yet, 
if the most thoroughly savage class of people 
were told the truth about their savagery, they 
would not only be offended and deny the ac- 
cusation, but they would turn the power of 
their position upon and against the offender 
with such violence as to demonstrate conclu- 
sively that the accuser spoke only the truth 



184 THE LIVING JESUS 

when declaring to them the fact of their sav- 
agery. 

Necessarily, human government is an insti- 
tution not in, but out of, the hands, the keep- 
ing, and control of the people, and is commit- 
ted to the keeping and conducting, to the hands 
of those who are, as the saying goes, "in au- 
thority." These, such as these, too often are 
the worst savages which have to be reckoned 
with. This, I know, is not only a truth, but 
it is a truth stated with bluntness; and not- 
withstanding that I love peace, I know that 
this statement will, for a time, bring, in a 
measure, the very opposite of peace. Further- 
more, I know it will, in time, bring to the great 
bulk of humanity a realization of where terror- 
izing savagery really exists. And the people, 
the whole people, will bring peace, and destroy 
tyranny. 

About the highest and best understanding 
which human beings have concerning govern- 
ment in the world of liberated souls is that it 
is patterned somewhat after that form of gov- 
ernment which is best,, as set up here upon 
earth. This concept, so far as it is in evidence 
and so far as it is true, will radically change 
within the next fifty years. It will change 



Great 
emotion. 



THE INNER CIRCLE 185 

because of a change wrought out in the human 
mind by the power of spirit and soul influence. 

The greatest man that Russia ever produced 
understood all that I have said, and even more 
than I have said, about human government. 
His prophetic soul vision gained a glimpse of 
the government of the spiritual world, and he 
endeavored to portray what he had seen of 
the spiritual government in such a manner as 
to make it clear to the understanding of man, 
that human government should be patterned 
after it. 

Whatever else may be said concerning the 
government of the great spiritual world, it 
may be most frankly and seriously stated that 
it has no rulers, no potentates, analogous to 
those who find a place in the governments 
of earth. Furthermore, the government of 
the spiritual world projects out into life no 
restraining power. This may seem peculiar. 
It must seem so to human beings. The heav- 
enly kingdom is a community. Earth's gov- 
ernments have to restrain men with undevel- 
oped spirituality from stealing, from outward- 
ly expressing covetousness, from committing 
crimes against nature itself; but this feature 
of human government fails of any existence 



186 THE LIVING JESUS 

in the spiritual world, simply because there is 
no reason for its existing. 

Thought. Thoughts are not things. Thoughts do not 
create things. Nothing is being created now. 
All that will ever be created is already here. 
In the spiritual kingdom, this commune king- 
dom, the individual realizes that all which has 
been created is for common use, and that it 
matters not how much one may use of it, there 
is so unlimited a supply that there always re- 
mains enough. Thus, in the spiritual kingdom, 
one is not restrained from taking anything; 
but he must use thought, else he can take 
nothing, for he can take absolutely nothing 
which he is incapable of properly co-ordinat- 
ing, properly assembling. By proper co-ordi- 
nation and proper assembling of things, I mean 
the bringing together of the things created so 
as to construct something of value, as a con- 
struction, to himself. He, being a part of the 
great commonwealth of this kingdom, will 
build nothing except that which is helpful, not 
only to self, but to all citizens of this kingdom, 
the celestial world. 

Thought gathers the material and properly 
co-ordinates it into dress, for spirits are clothed 



THE INNER CIRCLE 187 

upon; and in the spiritual kingdom there is 
recognized the necessity of such an assemblage 
of things as will make for the body clothing, 
for none in the spiritual world is allowed to 
live undressed. I do not mean that they are 
prohibited from going naked by any mandate 
of the governmental power, but are so hindered 
by virtue of a natural disposition. It must not 
be thought that, in the spiritual kingdom, mod- 
esty fails of becoming an important quality of 
soul mind. Notwithstanding this, — that the 
best apparel is purchased only by the use of 
thought properly co-ordinating things, things 
which are everywhere, — there are those in 
the spiritual kingdom who are clothed upon 
with that which is analogous to the crudest 
rag coverings of the earth sphere; and this is 
so, because of the limited power of the thinker 
to use such thoughts as are necessary to co- 
ordinate the general stuff entering into better 
garments. 

People live in houses, and they build their 
houses by the use of thought, and the house is 
either a palace or a hovel, in accordance with 
their ability to think, to use thought so as to 
assemble properly the proper things to make 
a palace; or,, on the other hand, by virtue of 



1 88 THE LIVING JESUS 

the lack of proper thought, they are forced to 
move into a hovel of their own thought crea- 
tion. Thus every man and every woman build 
freely for themselves. 

In the spiritual kingdom there is no disposi- 
tion toward unfairness upon the part of one 
in dealing with another. Even the most im- 
mature expression of a thinker admits of no 
quality of jealousy. All gradually catch the 
right inspiration, gradually are blessed with 
nobler aspirations, and because of this, they 
gradually come to clothe themselves more and 
Great more becomingly, and build better and better. 

earnest - 

ness. The word "sanitation," of course, means 

nothing in the spiritual kingdom; to the deni- 
zens of the spiritual. world the word "health" 

Smile. has no meaning. All is health, and all is clean- 
liness. Thought cannot gather around it that 
which is not around for it to gather. There- 
fore, there is an impossibility of accumulating 
filth, and there can be no such thing as sickness. 

ofth^Soui ^^ e h° me °^ ^ e sou l °P ens no greater op- 
portunities than those which are opened up to 
the purely human being; but the discarding of 
the human, by the soul, leaves the soul free to 
understand better, and to choose more wisely 



THE INNER CIRCLE 189 

of the opportunities which God gives to all 
life, wherever life is. When the soul is gradu- 
ated out of its physical environment, it finds its 
surroundings quite as normal, quite as natural 
to it, as the physical being found its surround- 
ings in the environment of the physical world. 
Thus none feels any sense of being out of place 
in the spiritual world, in the spiritual king- 
dom. This is so, because it cannot possibly be 
otherwise, since through the law of gradua- 
tion no one ever lives in any other place than 
just his own place; and if, upon early entrance 
to the spiritual kingdom, one is by nature grad- 
uated to a place of lowliness, it is because he 
fits that place and is natural to that place, and 
that place is natural to him. Yet aspiration 
again comes, as it comes to all in the spiritual 
world, and he soon is graduated into another 
place, because he becomes fitted for another 
place. Therefore, a more exalted place be- 
comes natural to him, because he is a more ex- 
alted being, spiritually exalted, I mean; thus 
through the hundreds and thousands of states 
he passes on and on, and yet in each and every 
state he finds home, a perfectly natural home 
to him. 

Divine Law recognizes that a man unfitted 



190 



THE LIVING JESUS 



Smile. 



Hand ex- 
tended in 
blessing 
toward 
each twice. 



for an exalted sphere would be quite as much 
in hell if admitted into that sphere, as one 
would be who was fitted for an exalted sphere, 
if thrust down into a state far beneath his 
own qualifications and development. The 
whole plan of the spiritual kingdom is not only 
God-ordained, but lovingly arranged to meet 
the demand of every soul in its upward climb. 
There is not one feature of the spiritual king- 
dom for any one soul that need be in any way 
dreaded; for whatever state a soul may enter 
when leaving the body, that state is far better 
than the state just left, when the physical body 
gave up its claim upon the soul. 



SESSION 27 

f 9 H 27 ' Spiritual Healing Circle 

Right hand To as many as will receive it, I bring the 
ov^fhe blessing of health. 

people, and a dream might be of such a kind as to con- 
to the , ° 

medium, stitute as great a value to an individual as any 

Long SS ? * actual experience could possibly become to 

pause. h\m. The past is only a dream. All of the 

Great past is but a dream. And yet all are not dream- 

earnest- | j 

ness. ing dreams ; but when all have lived the experi- 

ences of to-day, and the sun closes down, and 
The Dream night comes, one might as well have dreamed 
j^ a L e all the experiences of the day as to have experi- 
enced the contact one has had with things, 
after the usual manner of such contact. Yet, 
again, the past with all of its experiences has 
been, and the experiences have been, facts. If 
any man lives to-day in the dream life of the 
past, he would do well to move out of his pres- 
ent condition of living. One must ultimately 

willingly give up the dream of the past, or have 

191 



192 



THE LIVING JESUS 



Striking 
table with 
hand in 
emphasis. 



it ruthlessly taken from one. The mirror of 
nature and of God is turned invariably to re- 
flect what is before. 

Your sickness has been only a dream. If 
you are living still in that dream, you are still 
sick. In order to be well, you must awake 
from the dream. Sickness is not a reality to 
any of you, it never has been, it never can be. 
You, the you of you, has never been sick, is 
not sick now, and never can be sick. The real 
you of you cannot be blind, cannot be deaf. 
Your dream is your deafness. Your deafness 
is your dream. Your lack of proper power of 
vision, of physical strength in any department 
of your physical being, is a dream, is not a 
reality to you, the real you of this you. The 
real you should govern all the rest, should gov- 
ern all else with which you, the real you, comes 
in touch. The past must be surrendered, and 
that fully and unconditionally, if one would 
take up with vitality the future. 

When you have lived a million years, — and 
you will live, every one of you, a million years,, 
— you will still be thinking about this future. 
There is always a future, and yet it is always 
the present. These immaturities of physical 
expression are unrealities of nature. To such 



SPIRITUAL HEALING CIRCLE 193 

an extent as they are indeed real to any, they 
are so only in the seeming. 

Your Father and my Father, God, is not 
glorified through any of these immaturities. 
He is glorified through this you, the real you 
of you. If any would be well and happy, doff 
the garments of the dream of the past, for this 
dream of the past weaves its web, and makes 
its garments, and covers you, the real you of 
you, with hideously unfashionable clothing. 
Step out from under it. Discard it, and forget 
that you ever wore it. 

I and my Father are one. You can say that. 

This lesser you of you cannot say it. Let the 

real you speak, let it speak. Let the real you 

express, let it express. The real you is the 

God. Let God express. God is health. God 

is happiness. God is love. Let health, then, 

Smiling, happiness, and love express. Let them express. 

ing hand" The palpitating heart of the physical body ul- 

threettmes tiniately ceases to beat; but the God center 

in earnest within mankind, that Heart of Hearts, will go 

on beating forever. Let that Divine Center 

Smile. within you express, let it express. 

You, my dear children, each and every one, 
the real you of you, is like unto an apple of 
gold within a frame of silver. You are wholly 



194 



THE LIVING JESUS 



Smile, and 
earnest- 
ness. 

Smile. 



Smiling, 
and with 
even 
greater 
earnest- 
ness. 

With 

uplifted 

face. 

Smiling 
tenderly. 



Ministry 
of healing 
to four. 

Blessing 
all, with 
upraised 
hand. 



protected, you, the real you. If your faith, 
your faith, is unhindered, it will reach out and 
take hold of its greater self, God, of whom 
you can say, "I and my Father are one/' Let 
this faith, that is the real faith of you, express ; 
let it express. The love you hold, the love the 
real you of you feels, is Divine Love. Let Di- 
vine Love express. 

Do not live in the dream that has been, the 
dream of expression, but live in the activity 
of the expressing. Express, and you will grow. 
Express the real you of you, and you will soon 
find that the lesser elements of life which cling 
to you will disappear. When the you, the real 
you, expresses itself, God expresses Himself 
in the you; and there shall be then no more 
sickness, no more pain, and no more death. 
And God Himself shall wipe all the tears from 
your eyes, and give to you the smile of eternal 
gladness. Let the true you of you, then, ex- 
press. 

I will heal one or two, if there are any here 
who desire my blessing. If none desires it, I 
will bless you all. 

And now, my dear children, all that I am 
of good and love I give to you in my blessing. 



SESSION 28 

June I, 



1921. 



The Inner Circle 



when the ("j cannot talk with you longer now. for the 

Teacher 

had taken Teacher is coming. 1 may remark that 1 am 
turned,' as C authorized by the forces to say that it is to be 

if looking /^ } as f v j s (f j QY a l{ m e. . . . 
through J . . 

the closed /i£ is coming to-night in great glory, — 
first 1 to glory of the celestial world, I mean. The 
then le to' mind of man hath not yet conceived of this 
the right, glory of which I speak, that is, the human 
straight m mind hath not conceived of it. The light! Not 
and°up, im th e light in which he travels, but the light he 
as if seeing radiates ! It draws followers just by the nat- 

a large J j j 

multitude, ural law of attraction. That light is not alone 
ha^a^was to illuminate the pathway; it is a light of 
b?e S ss?ng n strength, a light of force; it is the LIGHT OF 

over all; LIFE!" 
then special 

blessing to John McCullough.) 

each of the 
three hu- 
man beings 

present. Martha and Mary, my blessing I bring to 

you both; and when I go away I shall leave 

195 



196 



E. P. W. 
said, "Is 
it right to 
ask you a 
question 
now?" 



THE LIVING JESUS 

with you my blessing, and it shall abide with 
you. 

Not quite now. You need not ask any. You 
have already asked it,, and I will answer it. 



A 

Prophecy. 



Pause. 
Smiling-. 



E. B. O. 

replied, 
"Perhaps, 
in part." 

Smiling 

very 

happily. 



I do not, and I cannot, measure time except 
by the importance of events. Events are my 
only timepieces; but these timepieces are very 
accurate in the keeping- of time. An event is 
an expression, of course, of an accumulation 
of causations producing it; and great causes 
produce great events. A great event indicates 
and proclaims, in fact, that considerable time 
has been necessary to build it up. A slight, 
small event is more quickly builded than is a 
large one. 

I am able to see, however, an event, and to 
observe its proportions in the very first intima- 
tion of causation. Therefore, in a sense, and 
a vital sense, too, the event is realized and 
enjoyed long before its actual expression. Do 
you children understand that philosophy? 

Probably not altogether, but you do some- 
what understand it. Yet when it is under- 
stood, then joy is experienced all of the time, 
because the anticipation of an event is as much 



THE INNER CIRCLE 197 

a joy as is the advent of the event itself. Now 
you begin to see more clearly; and you begin 
to see the beauty that all this reveals, for happy 
Smiling anticipations dislodge the very quality of mind 
ecstatically, now practised and used so much, called "pa- 
tience." 

I have said this, seeing an event ahead in 
the causation principles existing now, and that 
event is future work. I am to retire from this 
specific feature of endeavor for a space of 
what you call time, and possibly you may await 
the event less impatiently because of what I 
have just said. 

The world at large will not be so blessed. 
The world at large will receive the message, 
and some will indeed receive it into their very 
soul and be benefited. Others will receive it 
only to reject it, and in the very heat and tor- 
rent of their rejection another message will 
meet them at their door. And they will be con- 
quered by it, — not subdued into any mental 
slavery regarding it, but their opposition 
will be overcome, that is what I mean. The 
next message may not be so long, but it will 
be very vital. I hope to begin its delivery in 
the month of November. 

The time will pass for you rapidly, and for 



198 THE LIVING JESUS 

the most part pleasingly,- — the time between 
the now and the November month. 



What I have said in these messages will not 
effect directly valuable human reformation. 
Indirectly, these messages will have much to 
do toward reforming where reformation is 
needed ; and where is there a place or condition 
upon earth where reformation is not needed, at 
least in some degree? 

These messages will lead people to think. 
People of the church will be led to think. Peo- 
ple in the social world will be stimulated to 
think more than they have. Some politicians 
will think, if not more than they have been 
thinking, at least along entirely different lines, 
and they will get a different view than they 
have had upon the meaning of real righteous 
equity. 

These messages will comfort many. They 
will instruct many. I have sent them out into 
the world directly for the world's good. To as 
many as receive them soul fully, will a blessing 
be given. Some will receive the blessing im- 
mediately upon reading these messages, and 
others, later. 

Again, I thank you both, — and yet I do not 



THE INNER CIRCLE 199 

thank you, — for the part you perform in the 
labor of getting these messages out to the 

Smiling, world. I thank you now for doing this, but a 
little later you will be filled with thankfulness 

Smile. because you were chosen to do it. 

I am now closing these messages for the 
present. Every word spoken in them has been 
spoken in the spirit of just love for human 
beings. Whoever reads these messages in the 
right spirit will feel my love while reading 
them. I love all humanity because I really 
love your Father and my Father, and I desire 
that that love which I feel shall quicken every 
soul and mind who reads these messages. 

with up- it is love — Love — just LOVE — that saves. 

lifted face, 
shining - . 

Ministry I now come to answer your question. 

of healing 
very im- 
pressively 
rendered 
to the two 
whom he 
called 
"Martha 
and Mary." 



INDEX 



Abstract and the Concrete, The, 

130-134 
Acceptance of this Message and 

of the Giver, Jesus, 41, 85, 

118, 136, 149, 150 
Advice, from Spirits, 7, 8 
Age, see Time. 
"Ahnung," xxix 
Akasha, 10 
Ambition, 5, 14, 15, 16. See 

Purpose and Mission. 
Ancestry, Spirit, 22, 26 
Angel, 39, 96, 101, 103 
Angelhood, 103 
Announcement of Identity : 

First, xxx, 139, 145 ; Second, 

xxxvi, 148, 149 
Anticipation, 196 
Apostles, The, 33. See Disci- 
ples, The 
Apple, The, 97, 193 
Aramaic Dialect, xxxiv 
Aristocracy, Religious, 169 
Ascension, The, 66 
Aspiration, 3, 14, 16, 25, 73, 168, 

188, 189 
Athens, 64 

Atlantis, The Lost, 14 
Atmosphere, of the Earth, 3, 7, 

26, 31, 35, 39, 65, 98 
Atonement, 113, 161; At-one- 

ment, 114, 161 ; Divine Justice 

versus Vicarious, 1 11- 114 
Attraction, Law of, 98, 102, 195 
Aura, xxxviii, 4, 10, 11, 31, 51, 

68, 82, 109, 136-137, 179 
Aurora Borealis, 84 
Authenticity, xix, 41, 42, 44, 55, 

57, 173 



Author, The, xix, xx, xxxvi- 

xxxvii ; see Identity. 
Authority, 184; of Jesus, xix, 

32, 53 

Baptist Denomination, vii, viii, 
167, 168, 169 

Beauty, 24, 129, 132, 163, 164, 
165, 176, 197 

Being, 68, 81, 87, 90, 109, 178; 
Duality of, 17, 18, 87, 88, 89, 
90. See Spirits and Human- 
ity. 

Belief, 23, 24, 41, no, 116, 117, 
128, 137, 145, 153, 177 

Bible, 119, 120, 174 

Birth, 38, 72, 75, 102; into the 
Celestial World, 102, 130 
(See Death, so-called) ; New, 
24, 25; of Jesus, 37, 72, 75; 
Psychology of, 33-38 

Blessing, 38, 114, 121, 123, 124, 
136, 137, 142, 177, 188, 197, 
198; Blessings, 26, 29, 34, 54, 
69, 82, 83, 94, 107, 109, 148; 
Failure to receive, 55, 58, 68, 
69; Personal from Jesus, 
xxvii-xxix, 14, 18, 19, 30, 33, 
40, 58, 59, 60, 66, 67, 71, 76, 
78, 83, 84, 92, 96, 105, in, 
121, 123, 124, 126, 133, 134, 
136, 139, 147, 148, 152, 157, 
158, 162, 170, 171, 176, 177, 
181, 182, 191, 194, 195, 196 

Blind, The, 8, 54, 135 ,155, 192 

Body, The, 3, 4, 25, 26, 78, 88, 
89, 93, 105, 130, 135, 163, 164, 
165, 179, 187, 190, 193; of 
Jesus, 64, 65, 66 



201 



202 



INDEX 



Bondage, 25, 26, 93, 94, 97, H2, 
143, 179 

Boyhood of Jesus, The, 40-48 

Brother, to Humanity, Jesus a, 
xli, 30, 40, 55, 58, 65, 72-74, 
90, 119, 180; Brothers, 79, 143, 
146, 180; to the Teachers, 26 

Brotherhood, 90 

Builders, The, 108 

Burial, of Jesus, 64, 65 

Business, The Father's, 40 

Calvary, 151 

Cancer, 22, 33 

Cause, 3, 7, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 

43, 47, 57, 74, 78-79, 93, 96, 
98, 99, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 
123, 126, 127, 131, 132, 133, 
139, 140, 141, 142, 144, 145, 
149, 154, 155, 165, 196, 197 

Chaff, 116 

Change, 54, 96, 103, 105, 113, 
123, 147, 184, 185 

Chariots, 162 

Chastisement, 153-155 

Child, 16, 85, 129, 180; in the 
Midst, 128-130; Children, 57, 
68, 79, 82, 101, 102, 109, no, 
116, 118, 133, 150, 152, 193, 
194, 196; of God, 29, 30, 144, 
173, 180 

Childhood, 143; of Mary, the 
Mother of Jesus, 34, 35; of 
Jesus, 40-43 

China, in, 112 

Choice, 78, 116, 127, 128, 130, 
137, 199 

Christ, The, 75, 94, 95, 148, 149; 
Power, xxxix, 92-95, no; 
Principle, 27, 51, 93, 148, 149, 
160, 169 

Christian Science, 169-170 ; 
Christians, 33, 149 

Christianity, True, 155-157 

Church, 45; The, 198; Jewish, 
34-36; Protestant, 159, 160; 
Roman Catholic, 159, 160 



Circle : The Inner, xxxi, xxxvi, 
xxxvii; Sessions of, 13-18, 
33-39, 40-50, 60-66, 71-77, 84- 
91, 96-104, 111-120, 126-134, 
139-147, 152-157, 162-170, 171- 
176, 182-190, 195-199. Spir- 
itual Healing, xxi, xxii, 
xxxiii, xxxvi, 70, 199; Ses- 
sions of, 1-12, 19-32, 51-59, 
67-70, 78-83, 92-95, 105-no, 
121-125, 135-138, 148-151, 158- 
161, 177-181, 191-194 

Citizens, 143, 186 

Civilization, 116, 117, 182 

Clairaudience, 8, 9, 87 

Clairvoyance, xviii, xxxviii, 
xxxix 

Clamor, 9, 174 

Clothing, 9, 186, 187, 193 

Comfort, 71, 198 

Comforter, The Holy, 94 

Coming, of Jesus, "Second," 
56, 197-198 

Concept, 126, 127, 184 

Conception, of Jesus, The, 36- 
38, 72-76, 85, 86 

Concrete, The Abstract and the, 
130-134 

Conduct, 35, 86, 88, 183 

Confirmation, of Truth, 84, 85 

Consciousness, xxi, xxiv, xxix- 
xxxi, xxxviii, 16, 17, 19, 20, 
21, 28, 57, 65, 82, no, 121, 144, 
148, 157, 168, 169, 172, 179 

Continuity, 26; of Individual- 
ity, 20; of Life, 132 

Control, Spirit, xxii, xxiii, 
xxiv, xxvi-xxxv. See Spirits. 

Conversation, 153; in the Spir- 
itual World, xxv 

Conversion, 96, 97, 98, 99, 105 

Coordination, 186, 187, 188 

Corinthians, Second Epistle of 
Paul to, Quotation from, 67 

Council Chambers of Heaven, 

37 
Counterpart, 101, 102 



INDEX 



203 



Courage, 88, 89 

Creation, 7, 22, 26, 74, 186, 187, 

188 
Creator, see God. 
Creeds, 169 
Crime, 185 
Cross, 64 

Crucifixion, 12, 15, 41, 64, 150 
"Cubes and Spheres," xix 
Culture, of the Soul, 128, 131, 

140-141, 175-176 
Custodian, 160 



Damnation, Infant, 129 
Darkness, 25, 28, 41, 105, 106, 
109, 122, 123, 135, 136, 151, 

173 
Daughters, of God, 24, 26, 105 
Day, 28, 142; of Judgment, 144- 

145 
Deaf, The, 8, 54, 107, 135, 192 
Death, So-called, 15, 54, 74, 75, 

89, 122, 123, 133, 190, 194 
Debt, of Jesus to the World, 40 
Deed, 112, 113, 154 
Deity, see God. 
Denial, The, 145 
Denominations, of Money, 166- 

167, 168; of Religion, 167-170 
Dependence, 159 
Development, 6, 7, 54, 64, 73, 97, 

102, 131, 140, 153-155, 173, 

189, 190 
Devil, vii, 56; Devils, 18, 96 
Disciples, of Jesus, 56, 145, 151, 

160 
Disciplinarian, The, 153, 154, 

155 
Discipline, 153-155 
Dis-ease, xxxi, xxxii, 5, 69, 92, 

93 

Disposition, 108, 116, 153, 174, 

179, 180, 187, 188 
Disturbances, 20, 30, 122, 123 
Dog, 45 
Donkey, 46-47 



Door, of the Heart, xxxviii, 21, 
94, 95, 106, 107, 108, 109 ; The 
Open, 51-58; Doors, 123, 164 

Dream, 17; and the Real, The, 
191-194 

Driftwood, 81 



Earnestness, 69, 117, 169. See 
Marginal Notes throughout 
the book. 

Ears, 38, 92, 95 

Earth, The, 2, 12, 52, 54, 67, 74, 
81, 103, 108, 130, 131, 132, 140, 
143, 145, 149, 163, 173, 174, 
175, 182, 184, 187, 198 

Editors, The, xl, xli; Notes by, 
1, 49-50, 70; Work of, xxxv- 
xxxvii 

Education, 128, 131 ; of Jesus, 
36, 37, 61-64; of Mary, 34-36 

Effect, 37, 115, 126, 127, 132, 
139-141, 145, 154, 168, 175, 176, 
178, 196, 197, 198. See Cause. 

Egypt, 62 

Emulation, of Jesus, 73, 76, 149 

Enemies, 65 

English Language, xxxiv, xxxv 

Entrancement, vii, xii, xviii, 
xxi, xxx-xxxiii, 1 

Epoch, 119 

Equality, with Jesus possible, 
73; of Mankind, 116 

Equity, 198 

Error, 8, 18, 20, 29, 33, 41, 56, 
72, 79, 81, 90, 92, 97, 99, 109, 
112, 113, us, 116, 117, n8, 
127, 129, 136, 154-155, 158, 
159, 197 

Escort, 162 

Esthetics, The, 34 

Eternity, 20, 128, 173; Eterni- 
ties, The, 27, 132 

Evolution, Soul, 64, 96-99, 102, 
182 

Excarnates, 16, 26, 52, 130, 143, 
172 



204 



INDEX 



Expression, 6, 8, io, 24, 28, 98, 
100, 101, 116, 130, 131, 165, 
166, 169, 170, 177, 182, 183, 
185, 192, 193, 194, 196 

Experience, 28, 69, 101, 112, 113, 
122, 156, 191, 196 

Eye, 105; Eyes, 38, Si, 95, 107, 
122, 135, 136, 162, 177, 180, 
192, 194 

Fact, Facts, 10, 13, 86, no, 126, 
127, 132, 140, 144, 149, 152, 
161, 173, 183, 191 

Faculties, 79; Intellectual, 7, 
15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 30, 
79, 80, 87, 88, 89, 90; Spirit- 
ual, 7, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 
23, 79, 80, 87, 88, 89, 90 

Faith, 57, 67, 102, 108, no, 136, 
179, 180, 194 

Fallacy, 113, 127, 161 

Father, 142, 143; of Jesus, 35- 
36,45-47, 61, 62, 73, 85-87; of 
the Prodigal, 28, 29; Fathers 
of the Church (Jewish), 34, 

35 
Fatherhood. See Joseph and 

God, the Father. 
Fear, 15, 88, 89, 122, 147, 190 
Feeling, 4, 5, 9, 13, 73, 74, 76- 

77, 90, 04, 114, 121, 139, 165, 

177, 178, 180, 199 
Flesh, The, xxxix, 24, 26, 143, 

163. See Body. 
Flowers, 23, 24, 81, 103, 164, 165, 

175, 176, 178 
Followers, of Jesus, 145, 147, 

151, 164, 195 
Food, 29, 30, 68 
Force, Forces, 24, 76, 93, 106, 

108, 1 10, 137, 163, 195 
Foreordination, 101 ; and Pre- 
destination, 126-128 
Fragrance, 129, 165 
Freedom, 78, 150, 184; of the 

Soul, 14, 25, 28, 93, 94, 132, 

143, 163, 188 



Future, The, 41, 56-57, 75, 80, 
82, 87, 90, 108, 130, 137, 143, 
145, 155, 170, 179, 184, 192, 
197. See Prophecies. 

Galatians, Epistle of Paul to, 
Quotations from, 78, 113, 137 

Garden, 139, 140, 141, 164, 176 

Gardener, 139, 140, 141 

Gates, 123, 150 

Generation, The Present, 25; 
of Human Kind, 37, 38 

Genesis, The Book of, Quota- 
tions from, 81, 100 

Glory, 67, 123, 146, 180, 193, 195 

God, xh, 6, 12, 24, 34, 51, 53, 56, 
63, 67, 72, 73, 74, 82, 99, 100, 
103, 106, 108, 109, no, 112, 
116, 123, 129, 135, 136, 140, 
144, 161, 166, 168, 177, 178, 
189, 190, 192, 193; -greatness, 
64; -positiveness, 89; -power, 
5, 10, 23, 68, 85, 92, 105; Infi- 
nite Love, 9, 30, 109, no, 115- 
1 17 ; Oneness with, 24, 28, 82, 
94, 109, no, 114, 144, 193; 
the Creator, 112; the Father- 
Mother, 128, 133 ; the Father, 
xxxix, 15, 19, 24, 26, 28, 29, 
30, 40, 49, 64, 65, 68, 74, 81, 

105, 108, no, 112, 113, 115, 
124, 128, 133, 134, 149, 160, 
177, 180, 181, 193, 194, 199; 
Universal Intelligence, 74, 75 ; 
Universal Spirit, 22, 23; 
Voice of, 8, 173 ; Worship of, 
33, 34, 35, 36, 52, 53, 61, 73, 
74 

Gods, in embryo, 5, 11 

Gold, 96, 97 

"Golden Rule," "The," 156, 157 

Golgotha, 15, 146 

Goodness, 3, 5, 6, 12, 81, 96, 

106, 112, 116, 123, 178, 198 
Good-will, 67 

Gospels, The Four, 64, 65 
Governments, 182-186 



INDEX 



205 



Graduation, 189 

Greatness, 64, 123; of Service, 

The, 171-174 
Growth, 54, 55, 97, 102, 140, 141, 

143, 153-155, 173 
Guest, The Divine, 67-70 

Happiness, xli, 5, 7, 29, 30, 56, 
58, 69, 70, 80, 106, 135, *37, 
150, 153, 160, 177, 180, 193; 
The Harvest of, 80, 139-142; 
Peace and, 20, 60-61, 65, 66, 
81 

Harvest, 80; of Happiness, The, 
139-142; The Sure, 78-83 

Hatred, 108, 117. ^ 

Healing, xviii, xix, xxxii, xl, 
10, 49, 199; The Immediacy 
of, 55, 93-95, 105-no, 135- 
138, 180. See Circle, Spirit- 
ual Healing. 

Health, xli, 4, 5, 7, 20, 21, 27, 
30, 53, 55, 58, 67, 69, 70, 80, 
106, 107, 109, 135, 136, 137, 
148, 160, 177, 180, 188, 191, 

193, 194 

Hearing, 38, 92, 95, 107, 135, 136 

Heart, 82, 193; Purity of, 177- 
178 

Heaven, xxvi, 17, 21, 34, 49, 52, 
63, 74, 80, 81, 90, 102, 108, 
109, 114, 128, 129, 136, 137, 
174, 175, 184; Council Cham- 
bers of, 37', Heavens, 84 

Hebrew, Language, xxxiv ; He- 
brews, Epistle to, Quotation 
from, 153 

Heights, 123; Himalayan, 174 

Hell, 17, 190 

Help, 10, 13, 58, 69, 74, 82, 83, 
92-94, 105-110, 124, 125, 135, 
150, 153, 166,175, 1/9 

Hesiod, Quotation from, 132 

History, 145, 155, 158, 159; of 
Life of Jesus, 41-44, 145. See 
Jesus. 

Holiness, 55, 96, 115 



Home, 28, 45, 62, 130, 142, 143, 
144; of the Soul, The, 15, 118, 
142, 162-166, 188-190 

Horses, 60, 162 

House, 10, 33, 34, 40, 45, &, 162, 
164, 171, 187, 188. See Tem- 
ple. 

Hubbell, Walter, xiii, xiv 

Humanity, xl, xli, 32, 37, 38, 39, 
52, 53, 54, 57, 60, 65, 73, 74, 
81, 90, 92, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 
106, 108, 112, 113, 114, 116, 
117, 118, 121, 127, 128, 129, 
130, 131, 132, 136, 144, 146, 
149, 151, 153, 172, 179, 182, 
183, 184, 188, 193, 198, 199 

Humility, xxxix, 13, 30, 119, 
172, 173 

I, The, 12 

I AM, The, 55, 68, 69, 105-108, 
135-136, 180 

Identity, of Jesus, xxx, xxxvi, 
1, 3i, 55, 57, 73, 77, m, 121, 
125, 148, 173, 182; Announce- 
ment of, First, 139, 145 ; Sec- 
ond, 148, 149 

Idolatry, 33, 90 

Ignorance, 41, 88, 94, 97, 102, 

146, 154 or 

Immaturity, 26, 97, 98, 99; Im- 
maturities, 123, 192, 193 

Immediacy, 123, 198; of Heal- 
ing, The, 23, 55, 58, 69, 93-95 

Incarnation, xxiv, xxv 

Individual, The, 6, 7, 10, 25, 26, 
27, 28, 40, 53, 78, 92, 95, 98, 
105, 113, 114, 116, 121, 127, 
129, 139, 140, 144, 154, 158, 
159, 160, 162, 169, 178, 186, 
188, 191 

Individuality, 6, 16, 17, 19, 20, 
72 

Indulgences, 158- 161 

Infant Damnation, 129 

Infinite, The. See God. 

Insanity, 46-47 



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INDEX 



Insight, Spiritual, 174-176, 196 
Inspiration, 74, 75, 188 
Institutions, 34, ill, 158, 159, 

184 
Intellect, Soul and, 7, IS, 16, 

17, 19, 20, 23, 79, 80, 87-90 
Interpretation, 41, 116, 120, 169, 

174 . 
Interstice, 83 
Intelligence, 74, 75, 100, 112, 

140 
Invisibles, The. See Potencies 

and Spirit. 

Jealousy, 188 

Jerusalem, 25, 56, 61, 62, 64. 
See Temple, The. 

Jesus: Acceptance of, 41, 57, 
150; Ascension, 66; Authen- 
ticity of this History of, xix, 
41, 42, 44, 55, 173; Betrayal, 
145; Birth, 12, 72, 75, 85-87; 
Boyhood, 40-48; Brother to 
Humanity, xli, 30, 40, 55, 58, 
65, 72-74, 90, 119, 180; Burial, 
64, 65 ; Coming of, xvi, xix, 
xxi, xxii-xxxv, xxxvii-xli ; 
"Second," 56, 197-198; Con- 
ception of, 36-38, 72-76, 85, 
86; Crucifixion, 12, 15, 41, 64, 
150; Education of, 61-64; 
Father of, 35-36, 45-47, 61, 
62, 73, 85-87; Friend, A, 108, 
129, 153, 157; History of Life 
of, 41, 42, 43, 44, 145; Iden- 
tity, 1, 31, 55, 57, 73, 77, m, 
121, 125, 173, 182; Identity, 
Announcement of, xxx, 
xxxyi, 139, 145, 148, 149; 
Limitations of, 161 ; Love of, 
xxxvii, xxxviii, 10, 58, 61, 
108, 139, 109; Manhood of, 
37, 42, 43, 63-66 ; Message of, 
xl, 31, 61, 66, 74, 85, 91, 103, 
104, 117, 118, 125, 126, 152, 
153, 156, 166, 173, 197-199; 
Ministry in Jerusalem, 56, 



64; Mission of, 2, 10, 12, 19, 
30, 31, 38, 40, 51, 57, 58, 109, 
113, 118, 125, 150, 156, 166, 
!79, 197-199; Mother of, 34- 
37, 45, 47, 61, 62, 64, 73, 85, 
87; Oneness with, 94, 137, 
193; Physician, A, 93 (See 
Healing) ; Presence of, xx- 
xli, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 19, 
30, 31-32, 39, 55, 57, 76, 82, 
90, 91, 93-95, 106-109, 119, 120, 
121, 124, 125, 137, 148-151, 172, 
176, 179-180 (See Self) ; Psy- 
chic Powers of, 43 ; Recogni- 
tion of, 12, 31, 57; References 
to Experiences since his 
Transition, (by himself) 10, 
27, 28, 53, 55, 56, 65, 74, 93, 
136, 149, 172 (by John McCul- 
lough), 13, 71, 124, 126, 162; 
References to Facts in the 
Historical Life of, (by him- 
self) 4, 12, 24, 25, 27, 41-48, 
53, 56, 61, 62, 64, 65, 67, 84, 
85, 92, 93, 94, in, 114, 115, 
121, 128, 129, 145-146, 150, 
155, 157, 160, 164, 173 (by 
John McCullough), 32, 76, 
119, 120; Rejection of, 56, 149, 
1 5°, 155, 156; Resurrection, 
65 ; Self of, 19, 58, 64, 69, 82, 
83, 106, 107, 108, 135, 136, 
137, 138; Teacher, A, 92, 93; 
The Jesus-man, 75 ; The Liv- 
ing, 74, 148-15 1 ; Youth and 
Manhood of, 43, 61-66 

John the Baptist, Quotation 
from, xvi, 38 

John, The Disciple, 150; The 
Gospel of, 64; Quotations 
from, 19, 24, 27, 28, 49, 64, 
67, 82, 94, 105, 109, 121, 122, 
123 ; The Revelation of, Quo- 
tations from, 13, 28, 51, 55, 
58, 95, 106, 108, 194 

Joseph, the Father of Jesus, 
35-36, 45-47, 61, 62, 73, 85-87 



INDEX 



207 



Journalism, ix, x 

Joy, xxxix, 40, 53, 56, 65, 74, 

103, 104, 107, 142, 152, 153, 

162, 196, 197 
Judas (without name), 145 
Judea, xxxiv, 92 
Judgment Day, 144-145 
Justice, 41, 72, in, 156, 183, 

188; Divine, versus Vicarious 

Atonement, 111-114 



Keene, Thomas W., xiv 
Kingdom, xxvi, 21, 52, 53, 68, 
80, 81, 108, 122, 129; The 
Spiritual, 121 -124, 186, 187 
Knowledge, 12, 14, 23, 51, 57, 
63, 65, 68, 77, 89, 90, 97, 102, 
103, 105, 112, 117, 131, 133, 
142, 148, 152, 155, 164, 172 



Lamb, 45 

Lame, The, 8, 54, 135, 158 

Language, 107, 108, 119; Ara- 
maic, xxxiv; English, xxxiv, 
xxxv ; Hebrew, xxxiv; Sy- 
riac, xxxiv 

Law, xxxiii, 67, 72, 74, 98, 99, 
100, 102, 112, 113, 114, 123, 
144, 145, 154, 155, 189, 195 

Laziness, 140, 141 

Lead, 96, 97 

Leaves, 164-165 

Leprosy, 92, 93 

Lessons, 10, 118, 129, I53-I55, 
172 

Levitation, 61-64 

Life, xxxii, 2, 6, 12, 14, 15, 24, 
25, 35, 36, 51, 52, 55, 56, 58, 
66, 67, 70, 74, 75, 78, 81, 96, 
100, 101, 107, 108, 112 114, 
118, 121, 126, 128, 130, 132, 
137, 140, 143, 146, 150, 156, 
160, 161, 162, 172, 179, 185, 
195 ; Purpose in, 14-18. See 
Earth and Humanity. 



Light, 2, 3, 10, 13, 28, 63, 71, 81, 
82, 96, 131, 133, 195; of the 
World, The, 105-110; Spirit- 
ual, 27, 28, 31, 51, 72, 76, 82, 
84, 105, 107, 109, no, 120, 
126, 133, 135, 136, 137, 154, 
161, 162, 173, 195 

Limitation, 90, 143; of Power 
of Jesus, 161, 179 

Love, xli, 9, 56, 60-61, 91, 140, 
144, 147, 153, 180, 193, 194, 
199; Human, 35, 36, 37, 38, 
67, 75, 142, 143; Infinite, 9, 
30, 110, 115-117; of Jesus, 
xxxvii, xxxviii, 10, 58, 61, 
108, 139, 199. See Jesus, 
Presence of and Self of. 

Luke, The Gospel of, 64; Quo- 
tations from, 28, 29, 64, 67 

Luminosity, xxxix, 13, 39, 71, 
92 (margin) 

Luther, Martin, 158, 159 



Man, 73, 85, 99, 102, 129, 144, 
168, 183, 195 ; Jesus a, 72, 74, 
92, 93, 94, ri 3> of Sorrow, 
The, 129, 145; Men, 67, 82, 
128, 145, 149, 156, 171; Men 
of the East, 38 

Manhood, of Jesus, 37, 42, 43; 
The Youth and, 61-66 

Maniac, 46-47 

Manifestations, 43, 46, 47-48, 
177, 178. See Spirit. 

Mankind. See Humanity. 

Manna, 68 

Mansions, 49, 108, 164, 187-190 

Mark, The Gospel of, 23, 64 

Marriage, 99-103; of Soul and 
Intellect, 79, 80 

Mars Hill, 33 

Martha, the Sister of Mary, 
(new application) xxxvi, 66, 
71,84, 103, 117, 118, 142, 145, 
147, 150, 152, 157, 166, 170, 
171, 176, 195, 199 



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INDEX 



Mary, the Mother of Jesus, 34- 
37, 45, 47, 61, 62, 64, 73, 85- 
87; the Sister of Martha, 150; 
(new application) xxxvi, 66, 

71, 84, 103, 117, n8, 142, 145, 
147, 150, 152, 157, 166, 170, 
171, 176, 195, 199 

Mastery, 102, 105 

Materia tnedica, 23 

Material, The, 4, 16, 160, 164, 
174, 186. See World. 

Matthew, The Gospel of, 64; 
Quotations from, 21, 25, 52, 
53, 64, 65, 84, 92, 93, 102, no, 
129, 136, 156, 177, 179, 180 

McCullough, John; Notes by, 
13-14, 30-32, 38-39, 48-49, 60, 
66, 71, 76-77, 84, 96, 1 19-120, 
124-125, 126, 162, 195; Refer- 
ences to, xii-xvi, xx-xxxvi, 
xxxviii, xl, 1, 2, 13, 14, 30- 
32 

Medium, xl, 91 ; Jesus, 47, 74, 
87; Mary, the Mother of 
Jesus, 87; Joseph, 86; F. A. 
Wiggin, References to (by 
Jesus), xxx, 59, 68, 114, 115, 
176; (by John McCullough) 
39, 48-49, 66, 124 

Messages, vii, xii, xxi, xxii, xl, 
31, 61, 66, 74, 85, 87, 91, 103, 
104, 117, 118, 125, 126, 153, 
157, 173, 197-199. See Jesus, 
Message of. 

Method, 168, 169. See Educa- 
tion. 

Methodism, 167, 168, 169 

Mind, xxxviii, 22, 33, 34, 42, 67, 

72, 78, 93, 107, 112, 131, 135, 
146, 175, 176, 182, 183, 185, 
195, 197, 199; States of, 3, 88, 
89, 139, 141, 155, 158; The 
Eastern and the Western, 
contrasted, 174-175; The Na- 
ture of, 87-90 

Ministry, 150; of Healing by 
Jesus, 124, 148, 199; of Jesus 



in Jerusalem, 56, 64; to Pris- 
oners by Jesus, 93 

Miracle, 22, 72, 75, 85; Mira- 
cles, 48 

Mission, of Jesus, 2, 10, 12, 19, 
30, 31, 38, 40, 51, 57, 58, 66, 
68, 69, 82, 83, 103, 108, 109, 
113, 118, 125, 150, 156, 166, 

179, 197-199 
Mistakes, 60, 61, 79, 103, 115 
Modesty, 187 
Money, 166, 167, 168 
Mother, 129, 142, 143 ; of Jesus, 

Mary, 34-37, 45, 47, 61, 62, 
64, 73, 85-87; Principle in 

God, 128, 133 

Nature, 7, 25, 51, 58, 72, 78, 99, 

100, 126, 127, 140, 144, 149, 
165, 178, 185, 187, 189, 192, 
195; The Akasha of, n; of 
Mind, The, 87-90 

Nazareth, Reference by Jesus, 
62, 113; by others, 121, 139, 
148 

Need, 51, 124, 149, 155, 198 

Negative, The, 3, n, 29, 81, 
106, 118 

Neighbor, 44, 46, 116, 132 

Nicodemus, 24 

Night, 28, 122, 123, 142 

Nightmares, Theological, 118 

Nirvana, 6 

Occident, The, 12, 21, 174, 175 
Oneness, with God, 24, 28, 82, 

94, no, 114, 144, 193 
Opportunity, xxv, 6, 54, 56, 58, 

101, 102, 117, 132, 134, 136, 
150, 188, 189 

Opposition, 16, 113, 146, 149, 

150, 155, 156, 197 
Organism, The Human, 26, 8g; 

of the Medium, xxvii, xxviii, 

xxx-xxxiv, 59, 66, 68, 115, 

124 
Orient, The, 12, 21, 174, 175 



INDEX 



209 



Over-soul, The, 5, 6, 19, 20, 25, 

26, 29, 161 

Pageantry, 162 

Pain, 30, 53, 107, 122, 128, 144, 
154, 155, 194 

Parallelism, 14-15, *7 

Passion, 102 

Past, The, 80, 112, 128, 130, 155, 
158, 173, 175, 179, 191, 192. 
See Jesus, References to Life 
of, and History. 

Patience, 52, 91, 129, 155, 197 

Paul, the Apostle, 33 5 Quota- 
tions from the Epistles of, 67, 
78, 113, 137 

Peace, xxvii, xxviii, xxxi, xh, 
19, 27, 32, 33, 67, 85, 96, in, 
112, 126, 139, 152, 153, 158, 
162, 170, 171, 177, 182, 184; 
and Happiness, 20, 21, 60-61, 
65, 66, 81 

People, 6, 7, 8, 25, 32, 92, no, 
in, 114, 121, 126, 129, 130, 
143, 149, 154, 155, 160, 166, 
173, 175, 179, 183, 184, 185, 
198. See Humanity and 
World. 

Perfection, 96, 99, no, 113, 116 

Personality, xxvi-xxx, xxxiv, 
16, 17; The, of God, 72; The, 
of Jesus, xxxvii-xli 

Peter, 76, 145, 150; First Epis- 
tle General of, Quotation 
from, 93 

Pharisees, 53, 172 

Phenomenon, 28, 165 

Phylacteries, 9 

Physician, Jesus as, 93. See 
Healing. 

Pigeons, 44 

Pilate, 15 

Pitris, 21, 26 

Planes. See Sphere. 

Planets, The, 33, 130, 133 

Plank, 45 

Pleasure, 130, 143, 152, 157, 170 



Poetry, 174; Quotations from, 
9, 36, 50, 75 

Poison, 108 

Politicians, 198 

Pomp, 162 

Positive, The, n, 89, 118 

Potencies, Invisible, 80, 94; 
Soul, 26 

Poverty, 122. See Prosperity. 

Power, xxv, xxxiii, 6, 7, 55, 68, 
82, 107, 109, 122, 137, 143, 
144, 159, 160, 179, 181, 183, 
185, 187, 192; of Choice, 78, 
79, 127, 128; of Healing, 23, 

54, 68 (See Healing and 
Force) ; of the Word, 53, 55, 
93, 94, 136; Psychic, of Jesus, 
43-48, 119, 136; The Christ, 
xxxix, 92-95, no; The God, 
5, 23, 24, 69, 85, 89, 92-95, 105, 
106, 107, no, 114, 135 

Prayer, 68; in the Temple at 

Jerusalem, 34; The Lord's, 

xxvi, 52, 53, 80, 81 
Predestination and Foreordina- 

tion, 126-128 
Prejudice, 41, 42 
Presence, of Jesus, xx-xli, 2, 3, 

4, 10, 12, 13, 19, 30, 31-32, 39, 

55, 57, 76, 82, 90, 91, 93-95, 
106-109, 119, I2 °, 121, 124, 
125, 137, 148-151, 172, 176, 
179-180; The Living, 67, 148- 
151, 179-180 

Present, The, 12, 16, 23, 25, 26, 
27, 30, 31, 32, 38, 39, 52, 55, 
57, 68, 69, 71, 76, 80, 85, 93- 
95, 106, in, 116, 129, 130, 
135, 150, 158, 163, 180, 199 

Priests, of the Jewish Church, 
35, 85-87 

Prince, of Peace, 182. See 
Peace. 

Principle, 132, 197; of Life, 55, 
78; The Christ, see Christ; 
The Deific, xxxix, 74, 112, 
113, 128, 133 



2IO 



INDEX 



Prisoners, 93, 94 

Privilege, 26, 38; Privileges, 

93, 103, 106, 132, 157, 159, 179 
Prodigal, The, 28, 29, 30 
Pronunciation, xxxv 
Prophecy, 98, 196-197; Prophe- 
cies, by Jesus, 17, 28, 29, 41, 
42, 56-57, 75, 80, 82, 85, 101, 
104, 115, 117, 118, 124, 130, 
136, 145-147, 149, 150, 151, 
152, 153, 155, 158, 166, 170, 
173, 175, 176, 184, 185, 192, 
196-199; by John McCul- 
lough, 31, 119, 120, 195 

Prosperity, 5, 21, 29, 30, 124, 

160, 186 
Proverbs, The, Quotations 

from, 24 
Psalms, Book of, Quotations 

from, 123 
Psychic Powers, 43 
Psychology, xxxiii; of Birth, 

The, 33-38, 43, 74, 85-87 
Punishment, 144, 160 
Purification, 25, 53, 123; of the 

Temple, 157 
Purity, of Heart, xxv, 35, 86, 

87, 177-178 
Purpose, 34, 68, 105, 135", 149, 

150, 152, 166, 182; in Life, 14- 

18 ; Divine, 9, 37, 38 ; Human, 

5, 29, 97, 105, 109 

Radiance, xxxix, 10, 13, 31, 39, 

63, 71, 106 
Real, 4, 66, 118, 122, 123, 131, 

132, 162, 165, 173; The Dream 

and the, 191-194 
Reality, 17, 29, 30, 38, 51, 57, 

94, 97, 109, 126, 132, 165, 166, 
191, 192, 193, 194 

Realization, 17, 40, 58, 68, 94, 
101, 121, 129, 131, 132, 140, 
146, 150, 153, 154, 161, 165, 
184, 196 

Reaper, The, 78, 113, 141, 142 

Rebirth. See Death. 



Recognition, 132, 140, 179, 189; 

of Truth, 12, 101, 102 
Redeemer, 75 
Redemption, 116, 137; of the 

World, 55, 56, 57, 133 
Reformation, 198. See Luther. 
Regeneration, 38 
Rejection, of Jesus, 56, 149, 150, 

155, 156; of this Message, 41, 

85, 117, 136, 197 
Relativity, 16 

Religion, 98, 167, 168, 169; De- 
nominations of, 156, 167-170 
Remembrance, enjoined, 107, 

132, 146, 147, 173 
Restraint, 183, 185 
Resurrection, 65-66 
Return, of Spirits, 142-144 
Revelation, xxiii, 25, 62, 76, 

128, 155, 163, 168, 173, 197; 

Revelations, The Book of, 13, 

28, 51, 58, 95, 106, 107, 108, 

194 
Revival, 98 
Right, The, 115, 156, 160, 161, 

167, 168 
Righteousness, xxv, 21, 115, 

160, 198 
Rose, The, 81, 129, 175, 178 
Rulers, 4, 185 
Russia, 185 

Saintliness, 96, 97, 115 

Salt, 41 

Sanitation, 188 

Sanity, 129. See Mind. 

Savagery, 117, 183, 184, 185 

Scepter, of Peace, 85 

Science, xxxiii, 169, 170; Chris- 
tian, 169-170 

Scribes, 53 ^ 

Seances, xvii, xxvi, xxxii 

Sectarianism, 156, 166-170 

Seed, 78-80, 139 

Self, The, 12, 17, 25, 81, 82, 89, 
108, 121, 122, 144, 145, 156, 
186, 194; of Jesus, 19, 58, 64, 



INDEX 



211 



69, S2, 83, 92, 106, 107, 108, 

135, 136, 137, 138. See I, 
The, and I AM, The. 

Selfishness, 57 

Service, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, 
xxxix, 10, 37, 58; The Great- 
ness of, 171-174; of the Tem- 
ple, 34-37, 85-87. See Jesus, 
Healing, and Help. 

Sex, 99-103 

Sickness, 5, 11, 22, 26, 28, 29, 
57, 68, 92, 94, 106, 121, 123, 
124, 135, 136, 188, 192, 194 

Sight, 164; Physical, xxvi, 107, 
see Blind and Eyes; Spirit- 
ual, see Clairvoyance. 

Sin, 28, 34, 46, 94, 96, 97, "S. 

136, 144 

Sincerity, of Jesus, 39; of the 
Fathers of Jewish Church, 

34 

Sisters, 79, 143, 146, 180; to the 
Teachers, 26. See Jesus, 
Brother to Humanity. 

Slavery, 172, 197 

Socrates, 64 

Soil, 78, 79, 80, 140 

Somebody, 16, 17 

Son, The Prodigal, 28, 29, 30; 
Sons, of God, 24, 26, 75, 105. 
See God, the Father, and 
Humanity. 

Sorrow, xxxix, 25, 74, 94, 107, 
139, 140, 141, 142, 145 

Soul, 2-14, 19, 22, 28 34, 38, 52, 
68, 72, 87, 90, 93, 101, 102, 
103, 118, 131, 132, 133, 144, 
158, 159, 175, 176, 179, 182, 
184, 185, 190, 197, 198, 199; 
and Intellect, 7, 15, 16, 17, 19, 
20, 22, 23, 79, 80 ; before Birth 
on Earth, 36-38 ; Evolution of 
the, 35-38, 96-99 ; Freedom of 
the, 14, 28, 93, 94; Human, 
6, 7, 26, 28, 97, 101 ; Soul- 
mind, 72, 87-90; of God, 6, 7, 
19, 20, 144; Winged Souls, 



162; The Home of the, 142, 
162-166, 188-190 

Sower, The, 78, 113, 141, 142 

Space, 14, 7i, 83, 90, 94, 95, 131, 
163, 164 

Sphere, 60, 100, 162, 163, 172, 
187, 190; of Life, see World. 

Spirit, 148, 185, 199; Spirits, 
xxix, 7, 13, 60, 71, 76, 87, 93, 
100, 101, 102, 108, 119, 126, 
130, 131, 132, 140, 143, 162, 
I7 2 , 173; Ancestry, 22, 26; 
Evil, vii, 157; Guidance of, 
xxxv, 16, 26, 43, 47, 52, 61; 
Return, 142-144; The, 22, 25, 
72, 79, 95, 105;.. See God. 

Spiritualism, viii-ix, xii, xiii, 
xiv, xviii 

Spirituality, xi, xv, xvi, xxiv, 
xxv, xxvi, xxxvii-xli, 35, 37, 
119, 156, 157, 174-176, 185- 
190 

Strength, see Health; Spirit- 
ual, 62-63, 88-89, 109, 123, 135, 
136, 137, 159, 195 

Struggle, Human, 26 

Suffering, 22, 28, 30, 53, 57, 
122, 144, 145, 154, 155 

Sun, The, 1, 2, 7, 13, 27, 28, 63, 
71, 98, 133, 191 

Supports, 108, 158; of the 
Church, 159 

Swine, 18, 29 

Sword, 85 

Symbolism, 174 



Teacher, 12, 154; The Great, 
see Jesus ; Teachers, at Je- 
rusalem, The, 61 ; in Egypt, 
62-64 

Teaching, 49, in, 115, 129, 198 

Temple, at Jerusalem, The, 34- 
37, 47, 56, 61, 85-87, 150, 157; 
of God, 62 

Thankfulness, 103, 104, 199 

Theology, 72, 118 



212 



INDEX 



Thieves, The Two, 15; a Den 
of, 34 

Things, 186, 191 

Thomas, The Disciple, 150 

Thorns, 146 

Thought, 37, 72, 75, 79, 80, 87- 
90, in, 131, 149, 186-188, 198 

Throne, 45, 118, 122 

Time, 16, 41, 42, 52, 56, 61-62, 
75, 80, 84, 85, 90, 112, 128, 
131, 170, 173, 179, 184, 196, 
197, 198; Lapse of, 2, 4, 12, 
14, 26, 27, 28, 41, 52, 56, 62, 
63, 174, 176, 183 

Tolstoy, Leo Nicholas, (with- 
out name), 185 

Translator, The, xxxv 

Traveler, 142-144 

Trinity, 108, 152 

Triumph, xxxix, 106, 123, 146 

Truth, xxxix, 12, 17, 25, 35, 38, 
41, 56, 62, 75, 84, 85, 99, 107, 
ill, 113, 114, 117, 118, 128, 
129, 147, 150, 155, 160, 161, 
167, 168, 169, 170, 173, 179, 
183, 184 

Tyranny, 184 



Ultimates, 127 

Understanding, 33, 51, 62, 65, 
72, 76, 87-90, 101, 102, 109, 
117, 140, 145, 148, 149, 150, 
153, 154, 163, 165, 166, 172, 
175, 184, 185, 188, 196 

Unions, Marital, 101, 102, 103 

Unity Church, Boston, Mass., 
xiii, xvi, xvii 

Universe, 7, 10, 28, 49, 55, 72, 
100, 117, 128, 133, 144, 172 



Veil, 150, 163 

Vibration, xxiii, xxiv, xxxiii, 

32, 57, 7^ 
Vision, 14, 177, 178, 185, 192; 

Spiritual, 4, 136. See Sight. 



Vitality, 23, 26, 27, 106, 108, 

192, 197 
Voice, x-xii, 8, 9; Voices, 63- 

64. See Vox Populi, etc. 
Vox populi, vox Dei, 8 
Vox Dei, vox populi, 173 



War, 52, 85, 117, 184 

Water, 114, 123, 140; of Life, 
68, 115 

Weakness, 122, 123, 138 

Weariness, 28, 92, 93, 107, 118, 
142 

W T eeds, 139, 140, 141 

W^heat, 116 

Wiggin, Frederick A., Bio- 
graphical, see Foreword and 
Introduction ; also pages 1, 
39, 48-49, 59, 66, 68, 114, 115, 
124, 176 

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 36, 75 

Wilderness, 175, 176 

Will, of God, xxvi, 81, 82, 89; 
of man, 81, 82, 88, 89 

Wisdom, 35, 38, 64, 97, 144, 154, 
156, 174; Infinite, 100, 112 

Woman, 102, 129, 144; of Sa- 
maria, 114; Woman with a 
cancer, 23; Women, 82 

W T ord, 126, 199; Words, xxvi, 
xxxv, 41, 82, 85, 93, 136, 174; 
The Word, 53, 55, 56, 67, 93, 
94 

Work, 35, 85; of the Father, 
108; of Jesus, 48, 145, 146, 
176, 197; of John McCul- 
lough, 48-49, 76; of Freder- 
ick A. Wiggin, 48-49 

World, 2, 31, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 
72, 75, 85, 90, 128, 133, 136, 
149, 170; Celestial, xxv, 26, 
47, 101, 102, 120, 142, 162, 185, 
188, 195; of Humanity, xl, 
38, 56, 57, 58, 60, 73, 74, 92, 
103, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 
129, 132, 142, 144, 146, 149, 



INDEX 



213 



152, 155, 156, 159, 160, 170, 
176, 179, 182, 185, 197, 198; 

Light of the, 105-110; Mate- 
rial, 2, 5, 7, 12, 26, 55 J Phys- 
ical, 2, 3, 55, 72, 100, 101, 121, 
122, 130, 140, 189; Spiritual, 
xi, 2, 7, 11, 16, 17, 27, 71, S7, 
121, 130, 140, 143, 144, 163 
Worship, 33, 34, 35, 3^, 52, 53, 



61, 73, 74; of Jesus, 37, 73, 
76, 92 
Worry, 61, 72 

You, The Real You of, 5, 12, 
88, 94, 105, 108, 122, 123, 192, 

193, 194 
Youth and Manhood of Jesus, 
The, 43, 61-66 



